Hello from Kon Tum, Vietnam!!! Just wanted to give a quick update - not much else to report today, except that we had a great day of driving through the country. Great views, blue skies with puffy clouds as far as the eye can see. Dinh and Hung (our Easy Rider guides) are still awesome and are showing us the best trip ever. Tomorrow is another 180 km through the Ho Chi Minh trail - it's supposed to be the best scenery of the whole trip, so I'll be sure to take lots of pictures. We are supposed to visit the Kon Tum Prison - a political prison built by the French, so that should be very interesting. Today we visited a rubber tree farm and a pepper farm, and then we got to our hotel and had a delicious meal of Vietnamese pancakes...yum. I will gladly volunteer to be anyone's chaperone to a Vietnamese restaurant once I'm back in NY. I know all the good picks.
Quick shoutout: HAPPY 26th BIRTHDAY ROSS!!!!!!!!!!! (I know it's on May 23rd, but I won't be on the internet for a couple more days). Enjoy the day! You're almost 30!!! And you're married!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lots of love to everyone!!!
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Hey bro, things sound good on your end, road trip sounds ideal.
Things going well here too...still amid this string of great weather. I'm off tomorrow, so I've got a nice 4-day weekend! Sweet...
AC Milan won the UEFA Cup 2-1 yesterday over Liverpool. Yanks took two out of three against the Red Sox...we are still 91/2 games out. Ugh.
So, looking forward to your next story, take care and be safe.
Daniel: Just read your last couple of postings, which were amazing. I guess most of us had no idea about the richness of Vietnam, scenically, culturally, etc. Your comment about the war struck me, as it did you, with the parallel to the current, futile adventure: "no way out of the war, no end in sight, and no sign of victory." I suppose someday Americans will visit a "War Remnants" Museum in Baghdad.
When you get back, I expect you to do more than help us choose the best picks at a Vietnamese restaurant...I expect you to cook a dinner for us, complete with hand wrapped spring rolls. And after 5 weeks in India, for sure a complex Indian dinner...although I'm not the biggest fan of Indian food.
Everyone in DC has headed for the Eastern Shore this Memorial Day weekend...well, almost everyone...we're still here in Bethesda. Lauren is in Rehoboth with some friends. Today is the first yahrzeit for Grandma Kitty, so I'm feeling the loss a little more acutely than on most other days. I'm chanting the haftorah in her memory this morning in shul. Whenever I did something in public, she would always say, kidding of course, "Howard, don't embarrass me." I don't think I ever did, and probably won't today either!
Keep up the great travels and the fabulous blog...be well and, as your brother says, hang on tight.
Love, Uncle H
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