It’s 12:45 AM. I can’t sleep. Part of it comes from jet lag; I couldn’t keep my eyes open at 6:30 pm and then awoke not long after feeling like my house was being broken into. Turned out (I think) just to be an anxiety dream. And there’s plenty to be anxious over. The world […]
Jetlagged and bleary eyed, I worked up the index of my Vietnam trip for the DaNang Marathon around 3:30 this morning. You can access the list of blog posts here. And of course you can always access the “Tours” master archive from the menu bar above or via this link here.
Every so often, and it is a rare occurrence, it pays to have airline loyalty. Over the years I’ve grown disenchanted with all the airlines but really disappointed in the perceived slide in customer care at my one-time go-to carrier, American Airlines. I’ve hit lifetime platinum status with them and so no longer feel compelled […]
Dateline: DaNang – August 6, 2017 The morning started inauspiciously. And I should’ve taken it as a sign for what was to come. I got to the front door of the airbnb and it was padlocked shut. There was no alternate means of egress. I resorted to knocking on the manager’s door and apologized profusely […]
If P!nk were to do a companion piece to her 2001 Missundaztood track, and it was about Steve and me and our running, it might be called “My Pasadena.” To refresh your memory on Steve’s Pasadena Marathon experience, give this post a read. Tomorrow on my various flight legs back to the States I’ll write […]
Huh. Vietjet uses Myanmar Airways International planes. I was not aware of this as I rode an airport transporter bus from the terminal to our awaiting aircraft. I kept asking anyone in a uniform if this plane was going to Da Nang. Despite repeated broken English reassurances, I actually wasn’t 100% sure until I landed […]
I’ve got a heap of photos (not all good) that I’m having issues downloading from the phone and uploading to the blog. On top of that, the race starts tomorrow at 4:30 AM to hopefully avoid a bit of the heat and direct sunlight. We’ll see how that goes. So this is a placeholder for […]
August 4, 2017. Dateline: Saigon. I left my airbnb to walk down to the tourist office at 5:45 AM. I was supposed to be there for 7:30 but I wanted to err on the side of caution given yesterday’s tour debacle. Besides, I wanted to see the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon… and with a […]
Saigon… shit; I’m still only in Saigon… Every time I think I’m gonna wake up back in the jungle. Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now (1979) It was a long, strange, great tour today. Twelve hours packed full of insights, adventures, and more food than one should consume in any given day. But as I […]
The first time I traveled abroad was… yipe!… more than 20 years ago. At that time I instituted several rules whilst on the road. One rule was about food. The first rule about eating abroad is that no one talks to me about what I’m eating. I’ll eat anything at least once, just don’t tell […]