17 Hours in Nghia Lo
Here are a few shots taken during a relatively brief stop in Nghia Lo (Nghĩa Lộ) in Vietnam’s Yen Bai Province. I got my first street shave here, too. Nghia Lo is just over 200 kilometers from Hanoi,...
View ArticleVietnam People’s Air Force Museum – notebook
Still quite a bit of catching up to do from my trip to Vietnam in October. Here are a handful of shots taken at the Vietnam People’s Air Force Museum, which sits on the eastern edges of Hanoi. A google...
View ArticlePiran Café in 2010
That’s a boiled dog prepped and ready for sale in a small market in Nanning, China. Apparently, it offended western sensibilities enough to make a related post the most visited on this blog in 2010....
View ArticleAgent Orange, 35 years later
The shot above was taken in October at the Thanhxuan Peace Village, a clinic, school and orphanage in Hanoi for victims of Agent Orange. Over the course of nine years, US forces dumped 20 million...
View ArticlePrimary school English class, Mu Cang Chai, Vietnam
This is a primary school teacher near the village of Mu Cang Chai, posing with her English class, a pic selected today by the travel site Gadling as it Photo of the Day. I enjoy visiting schools...
View ArticleSleeping on the job
Who hasn’t? Or at least wanted to. Actually, this woman was simply resting. This was taken at the main market in Sapa, Vietnam in October, another Photo of the Day for the travel site Gadling. Filed...
View ArticleScooters of Hanoi
More photo organizing from last October’s Vietnam trip. There are just over 6 million people in Hanoi and about 4.5 million motorbikes. I didn’t count, but there are probably several 100 of each in the...
View ArticleAgent Orange’s Golden Anniversary
These are a few shots I took exactly one year ago today at the Thanhxuan Peace Village, or Lang Hoa Binh Than Xuan, an orphanage, school and clinic in Hanoi set up specifically for victims of Agent...
View ArticleFive Ways to Find Authenticity on the Road
No. 1: Leave your expectations and stereotypes at the unclaimed baggage counter. Better yet, dump them in the non-recyclables bin before passing through security.
View ArticleHalong Bay Quickie
I’m busy and swamped but haven’t posted since Friday and am beginning to shake. Enter Jake’s post announcing water as his weekly Sunday Post theme, so there, potential time management problem averted....
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