Nha Trang
From Vietnam It’s a fun thing, traveling in Asia, and looking Asian. When I was in Thailand, as the days passed and my tan caught up to the local level, people started talking to me in Thai.  In Taiwan and Japan,  I can pass the casual glance pretty reliably (until I start talking, of course). […]
Getting around in Vietnam
Taking the sleeper train from Saigon to Nha Trang was a much nicer affair than my previous sleeper train experience in a 3rd class berth in Russia. MUCH nicer. Maybe because it’s winter now, and before it was hot, sticky summer. Maybe because we were in soft sleeper (equiv. of first class). Maybe because we […]
Snow falling on sneakers
This has seriously been a busy past two weeks. Probably the busiest year end/beginning I’ve ever had. So after Vietnam, and after a new year’s midnight shrine visit, at 6:30am the next morning, it was off to snowboarding in Hakuba, near Nagano (winter olympics, anyone?). I posted about running to catch the train (to catch […]