Vietnam-If you pretend the motorycle isn't there, it won't hit you.

The title of this post sums up the basic strategy for anyone trying to cross a busy Vietnamese road (like those in Ho Chi Minh City, where I am now). As long as you walk out from the curb at a steady pace, the traffic will flow around you, anticipating your movement. It's a very Zen sort of pedestrian philosophy. Or it would be, if it weren't for the thousands of screaming motorbikes and busses flying past you at unspeakably un-safe speeds.

Pho - is delicious.


My first glimpse of Vietnam. The closer we got to HCMC the harder it became to see anything below the thin cloud cover. In fact, we reached a point where the clouds were completely covered by yellow smog, which, besides ruining the view for the rest of the flight, made the clouds look as if they were encased in amber, or floating in some sort of yellow tincture.
Hours Spent Sleeping / Hours since travel began = 4/45