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Our last meal as a family together has come and gone. It was AWESOME (look forward to an album of foodie photos from this trip), and I have a sudden urge to perfect the chili lime sauce pictured here. After I master the sauce, I’m trying to get a handle on the other things this…
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Being alone in a sea of people; it’s like a cure for the chronically extroverted. I can say precisely three things in Vietnamese, often incomprehensibly, but I can somehow fulfill my basic needs. This was at once a frustrating challenge and a liberating simplicity. For ten days: wake up, move, get water, get food, get…
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No more cycling for me – just quality snuggles with this fella 🙂 So I’ve never been on a family destination vacation. Previously I would have told you it’s totally not my speed and I can still stand behind that. There’s something… unseemly (?) about the situation. We’ve arrived at a bubble that’s completely different…
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Today’s best photo was taken on the muddy waters of the Mekong river, at the floating market in Can Tho. Not pictured is my bike, which I had to ditch today ahead of schedule 🙁 Basically the ferry I wanted to take to Go Cong wasn’t running so I had to detour to Saigon, which…
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My lunch stop today had me thinking about Stan Rogers’ “Northwest Passage.” I mean, sure, here’s a folk band from southern Vietnam playing a set of instruments that look remarkably similar to guitar, lap steel, banjo and fiddle – and yes, I bought the album – but Stan came to mind out of the circumstances…
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Morning ride finished with a ferry up the Saigon river to Ho Chi Minh City. Suddenly I feel like I’m back in Toronto. It’s 30 and humid, the city is tall and lit, people are strolling public boulevards enjoying the evening breeze. LRT construction is causing semi-permanent traffic headaches. It makes me think we’re all…
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After 1600km on Vietnam Railways, I bought a bike in the Phan Thiet market. Despite appearances it’s a hunk of junk, but I only need it to last me 600km. Over the course of 67km today I drank 5 litres of water. IT’S HOT DOWN HERE!!!
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This is undoubtedly the best work of embroidery I’ve ever seen, at a gallery in Hue dedicated to passing the craft down from mother to daughter as it has been for hundreds of years. I could have taken a picture of the dozen or so women in the next room working on commissions for global…
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THE FOOD! I’ve hesitated to post about it and frankly have hesitated to eat it… the very first meal we ate in Hanoi made me ill enough to spend a whole day in bed, and I’ve been slowly convincing my belly to get back in the game. It’s been worth it – obviously one of…
Adam Bailey 