Catching Up

Oh, my goodness.  It really has been a long time since I posted.  Sorry ‘bout that.

I describe our travel to see family as “World Tour ’05.”  Of course, it’s always wonderful to see everyone, and catch up with happenings.  Its also wonderful to be home and have the travel behind us.  For students in Việt Nam, you have an assignment:  Get out your map of America and find the following places.
•    Elyria, Ohio
•    Columbus, Ohio
•    Huntsville, Alabama
•    Orlando, Florida
•    Port St. Lucie, Florida  (remember that “St.” is the abbreviation for “Saint”)
•    Littleton, Colorado

And that’s all the places we’ve traveled to in the past three weeks.

I’ve also had a chance to catch up on my reading – and have updated my “Recent Reads” list.  (Left side of the screen.)  For veterans, I highly recommend David Lamb’s “Việt Nam Now:  A Reporter Returns.”  He was in Việt Nam during the American war, but returned in 1997 to set up the first news bureau in Hà Nội.  It will give you an excellent insight into what Việt Nam is like today, with some excellent comparisons to the situation thirty five years ago. 

I promise some decent posts soon, but we have a lot to do before we get on a plane to return to our hometown of Hué on August 18th.

Comments

[Brian]

Hope you're both enjoying the break. You don't list an email contact address on your site - or maybe that's just my old eyes again - there's stuff I'd like to ask you both, having just spent a little time in VN.

I don't want to do that publicly yet. And not without an invitation.

We adored VN. Adored. And we want to do a little good there, one way or another. KOTO is one option. Maybe supporting you both in some way, long-distance from U.K. ( but my wife is from Paris and also speaks fluent German ),...I'll stop now.

We are so ENVIOUS. sorry 'bout that. know it's a sin.

In Hue we stayed at...the obvious. And it was wonderful...but eating at Jardin de Y Thao for a coupla nights was...unforgettable.

When we got home, we've found your blog. Provoked us to start ours. It's all `under construction', with all sorts of unfinished `test' posts...but maybe, if you're feelin' homesick for Nam, you may - just may - enjoy some of the lo-res `mind-images' we've posted on our VERY embryonic blog.

May your god's go with you. Enjoy the land of and home of...

Brian & Mino