1st day review
Quick recap of our 1st full day in Ho Chi Minh city (aka, Saigon):
- Karen woke us up at 9pm… thinking it was 9am. She appeared at the door all dressed up and ready to go … not realizing it was pitch black out, and she had only slept 2 hours, and not 14.
- Ordering up tea at 1am, after Van fell ill
- Waking up at 5am, so I’m nearly adjusted to the timezone
- Visiting Dung’s family, who live in a small village about 20km outside of Ho Chi Minh city. Roads are in poor condition once you get outside of the city - our van was only able to go about 25 km/hour at the most, and usually quite a bit slower. We had to hike the last few hundred feet, as the road isn’t wide enough for cars - only bikes!
- Dung’s family was great - we ate and ate.. and then ate some more - a huge feast! Van and Dung translated for us, since no-one else spoke English. I think we were the first white people in the area - we got quite the stares!
- We hitched a ride on the back of Van’s relatives motorcycles to go visit her father’s grandmother, a few km away. She’s 91, and currently not very well, but she recognized Van and remembered her from the last time she saw her - when Van was 8 months old.
That’s it for the quick recap. I’ll write more later, but it’s dinner time now…
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