Getting ready to say goodbye to Vietnam. While I still have lots of photos and videos to upload and blogs to post, I wanted to jot down a list of things I will miss/never forget about Vietnam – in no order of importance:
- I will miss paying 60 cents for a Banh Mi Sandwich.
- I will miss paying $1.50 for a bowl of Pho.
- I will miss having morning coffee with my dad and Cousin Duc.
- I will miss drinking Dalat Wine with my Cousin Duc into the wee hours of the night.
- I will miss meeting new relatives.
- I will never forget the glorious sunset dinner along the seashore at Mui Ne.
- I will never forget kayaking with my Dad on my birthday in Halong Bay.
- I will miss/never forget HALONG BAY
- I will never forget the moment my dad and cousin told me they made contact with Mrs Hue.
- I will miss/never forget Mrs Hue.
- I will never forget eating Pho with my cousin and his wife after a night of theatre in Saigon.
- I will never forget climbing to the top of the caves of Marble Mountain with a random girl from Barcelona and looking down on the city of Danang. The view was sublime.
- I will miss my dad and I giggling like little kids in the rear seat of my cousin’s car.
- I will miss riding through the crowded Saigon streets on the back of a motorbike.
- I will never forget meeting and sharing stories with the nice ladies from Holland on our late night train ride to Hue.
- I will miss the food the food the food.
- I will miss my Aunt Mai’s cooking.
- I will never forget exploring Saigon on my own.
- I will miss the smiles.
- I will never forget seeing my parents act like teenagers.
- I will never forget hearing stories of my mom’s childhood.
- I will never forget the shivers I felt when our plane touched down in Saigon.
- I will never forget our cousins greeting us at the airport.
- I will never forget the insane poverty most Vietnamese live in, including many of my relatives.
- I will NOT miss our taxi driver getting into a shouting match with another driver and seeing him reach under the seat for…thankfully he put away whatever was under his seat.
- I will never forget visiting my Grandmother’s grave.
- I will never forget swimming in Halong Bay.
- I will NOT miss my Aunt Mai’s husband Thanh walking around the house shirtless.
- I will miss driving through the mountains of Dalat.
- I will never forget my dad and I touring central Vietnam by ourselves.
- I will miss our tour guide in central Vietnam. My dad will miss him more. They both talked nonstop for 48hrs.
- I will strangely kind of miss the gecko lizards crawling around every wall in Vietnam.
- I will never forget the tourists on our Mekong Delta tour being spellbound by my dad’s stories of Vietnam.
- I will never forget the War Remnants Museum.
- I will never forget the mooncake baking lesson.
- I will miss Larue Beer.
- I will miss 333 Beer.
- I will NOT miss the traffic in Saigon. It is ten times worse than NY. I swear. Here, motorbikes rule the streets, not cars.
- I will miss the cookies at ABC Bakery.
- I will miss Vietnam Airlines. Possibly the best airline I've ever flown.
- I will miss breezing through airport security in under 5 minutes.
1 comments:
Thanks for taking us on your journey, Don!
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