It is May 31, 2017 today, more than ten years since this trip ended. I have just finished transcribing all my notes from the trip into this blog. I have had a bag with all my Vietnam notes, receipts, schedules, and the like sitting by my desk waiting to be organized into a useful document for a long time. Now since travelpod.com is shutting down in a few weeks, I have a pending deadline and want to get a book of the trip printed before it does. I can't put today'...

Early this morning, we started the long trip home, reversing the route we took to get to Hoi An. When we went to check out at the hotel, we almost forgot to ask for our passports back. That would have been awful to get to the airport without them. But we remembered at the last minute before we left. Our travel agent had a driver pick us up to go to the airport. He arrived on time and got us there promptly without the drama we had when arriving. The flights went...