Chris on April 25th, 2009

The sun pounded down on us as we cruised down countless rice paddies. At this point in our journey to the ancient Dragon’s Bridge we were helplessly lost. Our salvation soon came in the form of a local woman who would lead the way. But, I’ll get back to that later…. We decided to stay [...]

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Chris on April 14th, 2009

Jodi has this thing with massages; she loves them but will only get a massage if someone she knows, i.e. me, is right along side going through the same experience. Personally I can take ‘em or leave them. They are usually more painful than relaxing, and the money spent really isn’t worth the cost. At [...]

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Chris on April 5th, 2009

Upon arriving in Vientiane we had one goal in mind, obtaining our visa for China. We initially planned to get our Chinese visa along with our Russian visa in Hong Kong. But upon further research, we realized that Hong Kong was REALLY expensive. Waiting four days for our Chinese visa plus six days for our [...]

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Chris on March 10th, 2009

When we were in Ho Chi Minh we noticed these buses unlike any other buses seen to date. Vietnam’s version of the sleeper bus is three rows of bunk beds with small aisles in between each row. The rows of bunk beds ran 5 beds long. At the end of the rows were 5 bunk [...]

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Chris on March 9th, 2009

After our bike tour, we visited the ancient trading cities of Hoi An and Hue. As always seems the case, we were behind on the amount of time left on our visa so our visit to both cities was quick. Hoi An Jodi and I took a vacation to Vietnam about three years ago with [...]

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