Hello again! The last time I wrote I was about to take the first of two sleeper buses to Saigon. I managed to snag a lower bunk against a wall, so it wasn't as bad as the last sleeper bus. We were dropped off in Nha Trang early the next morning where I then confirmed the sleeper bus for the next night. Grabbed some breakfast and wandered around the beach for a bit, then lounged around and read a book. In the afternoon I walked over to an ice cream shop that ...

Hello again from Vietnam! So far I've managed to stay ahead of the rain. The weather has been beautiful for the past week and hopefully it will continue to stay so. For those of you who are keeping up to date on your tropical storms I will be far away from central Vietnam by the time Parma hits it again, and by then Parma will only be a tropical depression anyway. Where did my last entry leave off? Oh yes, just before I left for Hue. Well, the Vietnamese sleepe...

Despite the typhoons that have been slamming Vietnam for the past week I've managed to have a pretty good time in Hanoi and Halong Bay. I had only planned to spend a couple days in Hanoi, then I wanted to do two or three days in Halong Bay, which I've heard is the thing to do in Vietnam. I spent the first day in Hanoi tracking down the post office, where I spent far more than I could afford, then spending half my daily budget on sushi and gourmet french ice cream...