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Venturing Around Vietnam – Part 2
Hello friends and family! In the past two weeks I travelled to the central Vietnam cities of Hue, Da Nang, and Hoi An. Hue is home to the Imperial Citadel where Vietnam’s last dynasty ruled, and it’s also where I ate the best regional cuisine during the whole trip. Da Nang is rapidly developing into…
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Venturing around Vietnam – part 1
Hello friends and family! Greetings from Vietnam, where I’m spending three weeks before returning to real life (i.e. a job). Since my boyfriend is living in New Zealand now, we decided to meet “halfway” in Hanoi, which we determined was equally inconvenient for both of us. After two whole days of snowstorms, flight delays, missed…
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A Softer Side of Florida Man
Hello friends and family! Since my last post, I’ve been bouncing around Florida in the hopes of experiencing as much as possible before I have to head north for Christmas. I went to the Everglades and saw huge alligators sunning themselves in drainage ditches, and then drove through the Florida Keys until I reached the…
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The Shadow of the Sunshine State
Hello friends and family! I went swimming in a freshwater spring recently, so remote it was accessed by miles of dirt roads through a longleaf pine forest, followed by a half-mile hike into a swamp. It’s about 30 degrees here in Florida, with the sort of humidity that curls my hair and leaves a permanent…
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Locals and Outsiders in the Outer Banks
Hello friends and family! Driving across North Carolina from Appalachia in the west to the Atlantic Ocean in the east is like travelling in a wormhole backwards through time. The further east you go, the further south you get. People have stronger accents and drink weaker beer. Men smoke inside their cars, the windows rolled…
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Hell is a Family Vacation in Pigeon Forge
Hello friends and family! Nothing brings Americans together like fall colours. In the woods of Maine, Vermont, Appalachia, California, Idaho, and wherever else a stand of deciduous trees grows, you’ll find a gaggle of Americans gawking at the foliage. The parking lots are full of pick-up trucks with gun racks and Subarus with kayak racks,…
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