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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Picture Time

We spent $140 on a new Nikon Coolpix camera and have taken over 60 pictures so far. Thought I'd actually share some with you all.



Here's Reese outside the airport in Saigon. She finally decided that 90 degrees with humidity meant she didn't need her sweatshirt any more. If you think she looks a little tired and out of it here, you ain't seen nothing yet:


This was just a couple hours before I absolutely died in the hotel bed.

"I need an SUV to haul my ..."

We visited a laquerware factory that actually employs the disabled. Very fascinating process and ironically obviously non-OSHA approved.

I could retire here and make a living as a bicycle and motorcycle mechanic quite easily. I want to buy a tire while I'm here because they're all displayed in the most ornate, fancy wrapping. I'll at least snap a picture or two of them. If the same thing were on sale in the states I could convince gullible, first year liberal arts students to spend up to $100 on a scooter tire wrapped up like that saying it's a Vietnamese Hope Wheel or something.

Enjoy the pictures! I've got to sign off and get to some government prostitution seminar. I tell ya, if I were here with software developers and not social work students then hearing people say "Hey, let's go to the prostitution thing after this" would take on a whole new meaning.

2 Comments:

Blogger Doug Druckenmiller said...

Great pictures Chris, keep em comming. Interesting how much things remind me of Taiwan (from what I can see by the pictures and your description) at the time we were there. There was an article about Hong Lan (I think that was the spelling) bay in a travel magazine I read yesterday. The author talked about the difficulty of getting of the scripted tour into areas where there weren't the ususal tourist type things.

8:02 AM  
Blogger Adam said...

Wow - thanks for pointing us to your blog. Fascinating stuff!

8:11 AM  

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