Happy (Lunar) New Year (Tết) from Vietnam!
January 23rd, 2012
Based on the Lunar calendar, today is the first day of 2012 – the Year of the Dragon. Short for [&hellip
Browsing the "Vietnam" Category
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures…
January 17th, 2012
Foodie-wise that is. Though I don’t presume to be a consummate foodie like my dear big sister (blogger at the [&hellip
Dalat: My Own Private Shangri-La
December 18th, 2011
For more than a year now it’s been but a dream. Just a digital figment of my imagination. Early on [&hellip
(CELTA) D.O.N.E. Woo-HOO! (and some luscious travel plans…)
December 9th, 2011
Just a quick one here to celebrate the E.N.D. of my CELTA course, and drop a few pics. Can’t even [&hellip
Newbie Expat Comes Up For Air…
November 26th, 2011
Sorry for the silence here (but I wasn’t kidding when I earlier said there might well be a blackout here [&hellip
Not Even In My Wildest Dreams…
November 11th, 2011
It’s one thing to fly off to some exotic corner of the world for a few weeks, but quite another [&hellip
The French Would Be Envious
November 10th, 2011
Seriously, these folks most definitely know how to concoct a baguette. The Vietnamese, I mean. No doubt they learned it [&hellip
First Glimpse of Sapa
November 4th, 2011
Just another quick one here ‘cuz this “traveln” stuff is surely exhausting! Just a few quick pics of my first [&hellip
Ha Long Bay: Can You Spell M-A-G-N-I-F-I-C-E-N-T???
November 3rd, 2011
Seriously. Just now back from 2 glorious days sailing amid THE most incredible setting on the Planet: The one, the [&hellip
Waking up in Vietnam!
October 31st, 2011
Finally hit the hay here at the Rising Dragon Hotel at 1am VN time (after a 20 hr. transit marathon [&hellip
Whew! I’m on my way!
October 29th, 2011
Goodness, what a difference an hour makes. Frantic flurry to tie up last minute loose ends, Tweak the packing one [&hellip
72 Hours and Counting…
October 26th, 2011
YIKES! Verily 2 days: 1 hr: 30 minutes to go and I’ll be (can you spell F.I.N.A.L.L.Y???) winging my way [&hellip
Eating Live Cobra: What I WON’T be doing in Hanoi soon…
October 13th, 2011
Holy Freekin’ Furballs! Little more than two weeks to go! And here I sit, surfing all manner of Vietnam trivia [&hellip
Learning a Smattering of Vietnamese
September 30th, 2011
Among my most valued “travel tips” to anyone presuming to drop into some far away foreign land (as a guest, [&hellip
Is There Anything Better Than Having an Air Ticket in Your Pocket?
August 3rd, 2011
Uh… I don’t think so. Leastwise for this TravelnLass, the crisp feel of a freshly-printed E-ticket (to ANYWHERE!) is the [&hellip
Travel’n McNuggets: an Antidote for Global Glut
March 28th, 2011
Curiously, though I adore traveling to far away places, I’ve never been one to favor month after month of living [&hellip
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Off-the-beaten-path travel is my passion, and I’ve always lived life “like a kid in a candy store” – eager to sample as many flavors as I can. Indeed, my life motto has long been:
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