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