Gone with the Wind

Hmmmmmmm

and these are the decisions that will keep me up at night.

....

Calm down it's only tobacco. In Hanoi they love to take huge rips of the stuff, this man invited me for a smoke in the middle of the sidewalk.

This is Quy! he is a beast with the pipe.

he showed me around Hanoi on this beautiful steed, Honda '67

Dorm room at Hanoi University where I taught an american culture class! At one point during the lesson I noticed that their textbooks had a picture of the New York skyline with the towers still intact, which is pretty crazy in lieu of recent events.

Vietnamese Independence Day! It's good to be an american

Happy Buddah, not far from my current hotel up in the central mountains. He seems to know that the Giants are in first, and the Lakers are out.

Before making my way up towards the highlands, I stayed on the warm sunny beaches of mui ne for some R and R...

rented this horsey...

and visited some gigantic white sand dunes

Q: What do the next set of pictures have in common???

A: They are all taken at the same hotel called The Crazy House, boy is it crazy. If the Hilton family hired Dr. Seuss this is what it would look like. It is actually a fully operational institution, the cheapest room is $35 and has a kangaroo with red eyes staring directly at the bed, creepy.

Titanic shot

and they lived happily ever after

The Lost Photos

Boat in Halong Bay, reppin the CU shorts of course.

Young Grasshopper!

Ok, Commenting on photo's of myself is getting a little strange

So here's Chris Paul...

Wow, can't believe I'm missing these NBA playoffs. What great matchups across the board. If you like basketball, watch these highlights of Chris Paul's triple double in game 4. Putting New Orleans on his back and absolutely dominating the game, less than a year after knee surgery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xWqdhAumXI

My boxers where stolen; at least they left me with the Ralph Lauren's. Which I stole from Devo. HA

Slambodia

Tea, with catfish man.

They know me so well at this bar in Hanoi, they let me work behind the counter for several hours. Then I got to keep the shirt. Club Vandersexxxxxxxxxxxx

conducting an interview in Hanoi. Yes, There is a blue stripe on my head.

                                      

Hanoi, Ha Long Bay, Mung Village...

I visited some temples...

The Silver Pagoda

wow, so haven't updated in awhile.... you got a problem with that silver buddah?

Temple of Fertility

I love how the wooden man is looking back at you in this picture. Like the girls boyfriend just walked in.

I went fishing....

with this guy, who removed a floor in his house too reveal the biggest catfish I have ever seen.

this is his village, in the middle of halong bay.

paying for our dinner. good ol' sea bass.

Hanoi is dotted with small temples. real artsy shot, really boring. I hate myself for posting this, after praying its always good to...

PARTY!

In cambodia every thursday night, there is dancing everywhere in the streets. Everyone lines up in front of a boom box and goes wild to korean pop, I think we danced for at least 2 hours.

before dancing your gonna need some of....

THIS!

rice wine, 2 vats of it. these are in a floating village in the middle of nowhere cambodia. yes, I had my way with the stuff.

also after dancing its nice to eat some...

SNAILS!

hot snails, in a bag.

then the next day we experienced the finest part of Hanoi cuisine

BIA HOI HANOI!

Hanoi is filled with these street side places that are everywhere. fresh beer and peanuts. as soon as your cup is empty it is whisked away and hastily refilled before you even realize it was gone in the first place.

aaaaaaa the freshest beer.

Heres sooooooommmmmmeeeeee

RICE FIELDS!

WORD!

I just got off this train, a 36 hour journey that cuts down the country back to Phan Rang. I will be taking the same train back up to Hanoi in 5 days to start research on my independent study project.

Cambodia/Angkor Wat

Keepin it fresh at Angkor Wat. Notice the sandals, standard issue hotel bath wear. I lost my quicksilver ones on a boat in Can Gio. So every time we go to a new hotel,  I get a new pair of those baby's

We got into Cambodia a couple days ago, and while only a short drive from Saigon (5 hours) it feels like we just got a whole lot closer to america... so.....

The Colonel! in Cambodia KFC is a delicacy, served on plates and chilled glasses for drinks. It is also extremely expensive compared with the regular Cambodians lunch. We use the dollar without any problem in Phnom Penh.

Also, we crossed the border on a boat. which was an interesting experience and was much less crowded than the chaos at most land crossings in 3rd world country's.

Unfortunately, the beginning of our Cambodia/N. Vietnam trip meant I was saying goodbye too my homestay of 3 weeks. :(

That's my homestay mom punching me, secretly I think the whole neighborhood had a party when I left, thank buddah that kid is gone.

Russian Market in Phnom Penh.

Trinkets everywhere. Shopping List:

Men in Black DVD

Cambodia soccer jersey

Angkor beer tanktop

Hindu shirt

Inecence holder

Sexy is back inside the russian market

Looking back over Vietnam from above

Angkor Wat Pictures:

Alright more pictures to come...... but now for 5 o'clock ball crew:

AMAZING

Last Days in the Mekong

Aha! figured out how to add captions, boom goes the dynamite. I knew I said I would stop talking about vietnamese bathroom adventures, but how cool is that?! A bathroom in the middle of the river. Hopefully somewhere downstream an old vietnamese man's tea is tasting a little warmer than usual.


P.S.


If you think this blog has overlapping themes wait until pictures 4, and 5


We're talking about practice! Not a game.... Practice!

Dinner at a shrimp farmers house: raw oysters, blood cockles, clams, fish.

Yee, no better way to come back from the club than on my friends motorbike.

It's still funny allen

OOOO DRINKING! take me to slam town once again. Never, ever act like you want to get drunk around vietnamese farmers.

because you won't remember anything.

look at that face, o the how the rice wine doth flow!

Water Buffalo

Oyster Farm, so awesome, tasted so good in wassabi and soy sauce. unfortunately, his whole house was flooded during our stay.

I need a water balloon launcher.