I was up at 3:30 am today. Bright eyed and bushy tailed. I am actually forcing myself to stay awake until 9 tonight so my adjustment will be complete. Today was a fun day! We started out eating breakfast in the hotel at 6:30 am. In Viet Nam, breakfast is a soup called pho. It is a clear broth and into the broth you add fresh herbs, bean sprouts, noodles if you like, and other shrubbery that I could not identify. It is amazing. I also put in a couple of slivers of a sliced little pepper and just that little bit nearly seared the tastebuds off of my tongue! Awsome!
Cynthia and I decided to walk around and see some other hotels today. We crossed many streets, which sounds benign, but actually it is quite interesting. I really think the inspiration for the game Frogger came from someone who tried to cross a street here. Imagine walking into 2 or 3 lanes of hundreds of scooters and buses and cars. The trick is to look like you know what you are doing and don't flinch. Just walk and trust that they will avoid you. We were talked into riding around on a one bile rick-shaw type of thing and that was great fun. I took some video and will try to upload it later. By the way, we americans are typically much larger than the average Vietnamese person, so I believe that rickshaw guy was sweating a bit.
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Thanks, for sharing,when is the next adveture? And where on earth will you go?
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