My Life in Words

This is my last blog from Asia!!! I'm going to miss keeping a blog. I really like writing. Maybe I'll have to find another topic at home to write about on a weekly basis. I'm writing this from the plane home; only about an hour and a half out of Vancouver. DAY 75: so we arrived in Hanoi early from the overnight train. There was an organized breakfast at a really good restaurant. The restaurant is a program for street teens; if accepted they live and train at the centre for 2 years, learning English and service industry skills. By the end of the program, most get jobs in 5 star hotels and such. The breakfast was probably the best one I've had on my trip. A bunch of the group went to some "local village" for the day.....but neither Kelly nor I could be bothered. Instead we went to the "Hanoi Hilton" which is where US pilots shot down during the war were held as POWs. Before that, it was used as a prison by the French for communists. I think w

DAY67: we left Phnom Penh this morning for Vietnam. We crossed into the country via boat. It was a four hour trip and I found it a bit of a waste of a day. We could have gotten a bus directly from Phnom Pehn to HCMC in 5 or 6 hours, but instead we took the boat to Chau Doc for the night and then had to get a 6 hour bus from there to HCMC the next morning. So stupid. But a few people In my group thought the hot, uncomfortable, sticky boat ride was "fantastic", so I guess that's why they do it that way; to see more of the country. Maybe I'm just travel weary, but I thought it was a huge waste of time. Anyway, we arrived in Chau Doc in the late afternoon. Not a touristy place in any way. Very "authentic" I guess. We did a trip on "motorbikes" up the "mountain" for sun set. It was more like a scooter ride up a large hill, but it was still good fun. We had drivers for the scooters so we just had to sit on the back. Traffic was a litt