Reading and Roaming
One could get the impression that Bangkok is only about traffic. Both yesterday and today we have spent several hours getting to and from our hotel and the museums we visited. With this stop, we are back to being official and no longer on vacation. There are good roads, elevated highways with 3 lanes in each direction …
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Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama was here in Siem Reap as part of her Asian tour promoting education for young girls. We didn’t see her, but saw lots of evidence—police, armed guards, and security vans around one of the nearby hotels. Siem Reap has grown exponentially in the last ten or so years to a population …
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Our last morning in Ho Chi Minh City was devoted to a tour of some notable sites. We visited the Presidential Palace and I admired the elegant state reception rooms in particular and noted in the war council and secure rooms that not only was there the one important “red phone” which was red, but also …
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What a fascinating 24 hours we’ve had! We left Saigon yesterday morning for the trip by car to the Mekong River, about 4 hours total. We were told that before a strikingly stunning new bridge across the river, you had to take a ferry. The ferry ride wasn’t particularly long, but the wait for the …
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