Cocks in training

It was a quick flight from Hanoi, Vietnam to Vientiane, Laos. our hotel was in the tourist district and it had an excellent roof top pool – that we ended up using daily! The temperature for the next 8 days in Laos was hovering at 36 C. We rented a scooter of...

Northern Vietnam – Dramatic mountains, rice and culture

I had to take a break between Central and Northern Vietnam blog posts….there was so much going on in the North, it was way too much to blog on the fly – so this one is super late but I’m sure it will be great! We left a day early from our fancy villa...

Does that smell like soup or dirty feet?

From Da Nang, we headed northerly…decided to take the heritage train to Hue (pronounced Hway). This train was supposed to be a bit more cultural; they had an entertainment community car which was pretty Hokie…they have the craziest obsession with Karaoke here....

The longest one yet

It took us a while to realize that we could leave our Ruby parked / stored in the RV park while we take off on a driving trip for a vacation! As the park was beginning to thin out in Mid-March, we opted to go inland on an 11 day tour through the main cities of...