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Travel Tips | Vietnam

30 Lessons I Learned as a Vietnam Expat

I love to reflect upon my time in a place, so it’s fitting that after a year as a expat in Vietnam I sat down…

Ho Chi Minh City | Transportation | Videos | Vietnam

Motorbike Diaries – Vol. 17

  Resistance is Futile – Assimilation I’m not sure how it happened, but I’ve become one of them. I wear a jacket (which I’m boiling…

Ho Chi Minh City | Transportation | Vietnam

The Motorbike Diaries – Vol. 15

Start from the Beginning – Motorbike Diaries Vol. 1 What’s in a Name? I’m going to state the obvious – I’m a girl. What I mean…

Cultural Experiences | Ho Chi Minh City | Transportation | Videos | Vietnam

The Dust Bowl

I often wonder how many months the pollution and dust in Saigon will take off my life.  For this reason, I can’t imagine living here…

Cultural Experiences | Ho Chi Minh City | Solo Travel | Vietnam

Leaving on a Jet Plane…Tonight!

Just a quick update  – I’m on the move once again; I’m taking a vacation….yeah!  Ever since I made the decision a year ago to…

Food and Drink | Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam

Adventure Eating

After 8 months here, I finally found some Vietnamese friends who took me on as their ‘foreign friend project.’ They are helping me to see…

Cultural Experiences | Ho Chi Minh City | Travel Tips | Vietnam

Renewing a Passport Overseas

I decided to start the process of getting my passport renewed as many countries won’t let you enter if you don’t have more than 6…

Food and Drink | Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam

Durian – The King of Fruits

There are many hard things about living by yourself overseas…I may write a book about it someday if I can ever force myself to slow…

Asia | Ho Chi Minh City | Inside My Head | Vietnam

The Price of Being a Foreigner in Asia

I was out with a friend today shopping for camera equipment for my upcoming trip to Mongolia. I went to a local little camera ‘stall’…

Asia | Ho Chi Minh City | Transportation | Vietnam

The Motorbike Diaries – Vol. 13

The power of the hand…I hopped on my motorbike tonight at 8:30 PM to find out that my headlight no longer worked. It would only…

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