Posts Tagged: Travel
Red River Delta 2
Xin Chao, • Here I sit in a tiny cubicle at an internet shop. There are 16 computers jammed in to a space that is 15' deep by 10' wide. The end is open to the street and every computer is in use, mostly by young men I would guess were 15-18 years old. Many are playing games, and the one right …
Red River Delta
Well, let me tell you all, web based email is awful! I just spent the better part of an hour composing an email and hit send and it is lost forever. • Suffice it to say we are well and near Ninh Binh in the Red River Delta. Our days are spent bicylcing, boating, and walking the rice paddies. We …
Toby heard from
Here's Toby's take on our settling in. • The world is nearly full of people who are really pissed with each other. The Shias & Sunnis are fighting over Mohammed's son-in-law from 1300 years back. The Serbs & Bosnians are refighting an Ottoman battle from 1325 or so; not to mention Croat vs …
street scenes of Hanoi
Xin Chao, • I will try to paint photos with words. Because, as some of you may have guessed, so far the camera has not come out. It will, I promise. • Last night, we went out to dinner. Everyone was served the same thing, and we figured out what to do by watching others. When we sat down, we …
Welcome to Vietnam
Good morning! • It is 8AM, we have had breakfast and are ready to start our first full day. The hotel ($15.00 per night includes private bathroom) includes breakfast and we had this lovely fruit that we cannot identify. It was very white, like a merangue and filled with something that looks like …
Our Trip to Alaska
As our regular customers know, Horton Brasses closes each August for 3 weeks vacation. Some of us travel; most of us are pretty local, enjoying families and Connecticut beaches and New England in general. Toby and I have a lust for travel and this year it was Alaska or bust. • This year's trip …
August in Madagascar
In August of 2001, Toby and I went to Madagascar. Madagascar is the 4th largest island on earth, and is located off the east coast of Africa. First settled 2000 years ago by Indonesians, today it is a mix of many tribes. The country is 1000 miles long and 300 miles wide, and has all types of …