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Dale and I hiked 45 miles through the Superstition Mountains this weekend, in 71 hours, from near Superior to Roosevelt Lake. I hadn’t intended to hike it so fast, but water was scarce and we had to go long distances each day to get to the next reliable water source. The first day we hiked […]

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We got home from Asia about 7:00 pm last night. Our clocks are still turned around and I can barely stay awake this afternoon, but I had no trouble getting up for basketball at 5:00 this morning. In fact I wouldn’t have had trouble getting up at 3:00 since I was awake anyway. I realized […]

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Gisele, not me. She has a middle ear infection, that was pretty painful when we landed in Taiwan a few days ago. She went to see a local ENT specialist on Monday and got some medicine. Today she went back and had her eardrum lanced. It was less painful than she was afraid it would […]

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Well, compared to Vietnam it seems like home to me. I speak the language, and am familiar with the customs. We arrived last evening around 5 and had dinner with Devon and Xiang Xiang (Elena). Western food! Barbecued chicken cutlet, salad, soup, macaroni side. I love Chinese and Vietnamese food, but after two weeks my […]

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We explored some more ruins today that were very nice, but having seen Angkor Wat they were anticlimactic. I thought instead of discussing the ruins I would show a little about life in “modern” Cambodia. The only form of transportation we have used in the country are tuktuks. Tuktuk is a somewhat generic word for […]

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I’m back in Saigon as I write this, getting ready to catch a plane to Siem Reap, the city near Angkor Wat in Cambodia. We went on a boat ride in Ha Long Bay near Hanoi last week. The scenery is spectacular with sheer cliffs rising out of the water in hundreds of islands. Unfortunately […]

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Today we flew from Danang in central Vietnam to Hanoi in the north. Hanoi was the capital of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and is now the capital of the whole country. After landing we rode in a bus for a few hours to the town of Ha Long on Ha Long Bay. I […]

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It really doesn’t seem fair, that here I am half way around the world in an exotic foreign country, and Dale down in southern Arizona has a more interesting blog. He must be a better writer. Today we passed over the 17th parallel of latitude that used to divide North and South Vietnam. It is […]

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We flew early this morning from Saigon to the city of Da Nang in central Vietnam. This is near where Richard was stationed during the war, and I’m sure he came through Da Nang on his way in and out. There’s a beautiful beach here that was the supposed setting of the TV show “China […]

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This is my first trip to Vietnam, but I have been in other south east Asian countries before, including Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Singapore. So it’s new but not completely unfamiliar. I’m here with Gisele who is on a kind of church reunion trip. Three of her siblings and about 10 other friends from her […]

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