Leaving Hoi An a lot lighter in the wallet and smoother on the face. I am heading off in the early morning for a day that travel nightmares come from. I decided to not only do a 4 hour bus ride in the morning to Hue, I decided tonight to extend that because I just couldn't get excited about going to Hue so I am staying in Hue for 5 hours and then on another sleeper...me.....waker for a 12 hour ride to Ninh Binh cause that was where I wanted to be. The real...

Left Hoi An, poorer in the pocketbook and loaded onto the bus for my first daytime Vietnam bus ride. Wow - got to see what it was I was missing through the night. Stunning scenery. We made our way up the coast - moving at the pace of a scooter as the roads are very narrow and mountainous so at every switchback, buses and trucks stop to let the on coming buses and trucks go by - quite harrowing driving. I hadn't realized the whole country is mountainous - ...

Ah, live and learn! I wrote a long entry about yesterday's events here in Hoi An and the system went down and even though I had saved it inside the blog>>>>ay aya ya!!!! Lost and not retrievable this morning. Yikes! Learned to do it in Word and save save save. I guess if this is the biggest thing to worry about then my life is pretty rich. I am sending very positive thoughts to my friend Sylvia and her daughter Rachel as Rachel just had brain surgery a c...

Nha TrangI love this town. The beach is beautiful, the city is clean with lots of great interesting landscaping and architecture and I have a great room. The sun shines through the day - the humidity is the lowest anywhere in Vietnam and the evenings are a little too cool for me but make it easy to sleep without aircon. Rented a bike today and of course, got lost. Really lost. Thought for sure I was heading back towards the ocean and ended up in the country ...

Last day in Nha Trang - planned a lazy beach day only to wake up to a full misty rain - lovely but certainly not beachy. Packed all my stuff and decided it was time to downsize, especially since I was headed to Hoi An, shopping capital of the world for tailor made clothes. I decided to dump a pair of capris, some little stuff, a shirt, a t shirt and a also was not happy with the little backpack I bought in Cambodia to haul my computer. It was a fake North Face...