I’ve had some pretty incredible days in Vietnam, but this was my favorite.  And Chicago’s 22-year run as my favorite city in the world ended today. It’s now Saigon. Hanoi is number three but very close to Chicago. And considering that in the last 22 years I’ve visited over 100 major cities in many countries […]...

Not much to report on today. I hung out at the beach. I walked around Nha Trang a little and watched the surf roll in on the true Nha Trang Beach, I ate yummy Vietnamese food, and I had a peaceful, relaxing birthday as I had planned. Then I hopped on an overnight train to […]...

I was adopted by two lovely Vietnamese friends and their families today! Turns out, the hotel booked me in a “Vietnamese-only” tour of Diep Son (which I found out near the end of the day when one of my fellow adventurers asked me how I managed to be booked in a Vietnamese-only tour), so it […]...

Or a water buffalo in ravine water! 😉 Nha Trang was once known as the Cannes of the Orient, and since I spent part of my birthday in the actual Cannes last year (along with Monaco), I thought it’d be a nice synchronicity to spend it in the Cannes of the Orient this year. More […]...

The only reason I was in Danang was to spend time on the fabled China Beach, where American GIs landed at the start of their tour and took their R&R. I was on the beach by 7:30 am, and the sun was already pretty intense. I walked down the beach so that I was near […]...