. . . this was going on in Saigon: According to my wife, who returned from Shangai safely last night, today there are just a lot of fireworks going on in Saigon.  I wouldn't know, as I am in Kon Tum.  I got here from Pleiku yesterday afternoon.  Kon Tum is nice – I decided [...]

Renting a motorbike from my hotel and heading north on Highway 14 – which was the Ho Chi Minh Trail back in the day – and then west on Highway 40 to the border between Vietnam and Laos: Just south of there is an area where Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia all come together.  Not sure [...]

. . . Malcolm X has been dead for 45 years.  Probably not touting wind energy in Iowa.  Or anywhere. (And Goldman Sachs execs – we know you caused the financial crisis.)

Now that I am married and with a child on the way, my only remaining goal in life is to emulate – no, make that be – the guy with the stache in this commercial, and to live my life to the commercial's soundtrack:

This hotel in Pleiku is – to my knowledge – the first hotel I've ever stayed in where a box of condoms came with the room: VIP, no less.

Canadian National Film Board documentary about Saigon in 1970: more about "Sad Song of Yellow Skin by Michael Ru…", posted with vodpod *If the above embed doesn’t work for some reason, try this link: http://goo.gl/J942

I bought a USB cable for my camera in Pleiku today, so here are some photos from the last couple of days in Quy Nhon. Beach from downtown Quy Nhon: My hotel, which faces the beach: Typical street opening onto the beach: Paddling out to the big boat: I like this shot: These people were [...]

It's Wednesday afternoon – about 12:30pm – and I am in Pleiku.  Yesterday morning I rented a motorbike and rode from Quy Nhon down the coast to Tuy Hoa.  It was about 90km – which doesn't very far until you're riding that distance on a motorbike in the baking sun and in the midst of [...]

Sometime overnight my paycheck finally showed up in my bank account.

I made it to Quy Nhon no problem.  I had to get up at 4am in order to make it to the airport in time for my 6:10am flight.  I did my normal thing of not being able to sleep the night before I have to wake up early – I think I slept maybe [...]