Phew… a computer that actually lets me blog. It’s been a rarity lately. Anyway, as the title suggests, I’m coming home! When I went to the airport in Bangkok and asked about bumping my return flight up by a couple of days, the agent offered me Monday or nothing. So, I took Monday. It’s been a great trip, but all the stuff I have to get done when I get home has been weighing on me. Which means I arrive back in the States on Tuesday after a marathon session of flights and layovers. When I wake up from all that mess, it’ll probably be the weekend already. :)
I’ve spent this weekend in Hanoi, which is pretty crazy.It’s a melting pot of Vietnamese and French influences, along with some of the Indochina minorities and a little flavor of China. In other words, tons of pagodas and croissants.
On the food front, today was a three soda day. Which means it was really freaking hot, since I usually try to refrain from drinking soda back home. I also had authentic pho yesterday for dinner and finally got my much-desired bahn mi for dinner today. Tasty, but it actually has me craving American Vietnamese food! Well, that and Mexican food, Indian food, and just about everything else I’ve forgone for the last three weeks. Like ice. Mmm…ice. Frozen water never sounded so good.
Anyway, as I sweat here at the computer in my questionable hotel in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, I realize that after a day of sightseeing (including Ho Chi Minh’s actual dead, preserved body) I am sorely in need of a shower. Perhaps I should have apologized to my seatmates at the water puppets theater just now, but the least I can do now is hit the showers and look forward to a day and a half in the no-man’s land of international airports starting tomorrow. Mmm…. so close to being able to have ice. See ya soon!
