Heat, etc.
Current mood: 
It is hot in Vietnam.
20 hours of flying and plunged into the bustling scooter autobahn of Ho Chih Minh City and fed with beef pho and sweet coffee and dousing myself in DEET which I find strangely appealing as an odor. But maybe because its novel.
The park in Saigon was aflutter with bats and midnight revellers playing badminton.
It is hot here.
Whenever possible we sit in the improvised shade on improvised chairs eating piping hot street food which is many different and scrumptuous varieties of meat.
We got lost in the most amazing webwork of Saigon alleyways and everyone has their houses open, eating on the tiles, with the television near the shrines. I'm amazed how people can sleep on a motorcycle. The architecture here, I'm happy to hear, is sometimes called "tropical baroque."
I went swimming in the South China Sea and the water was warm.
Right now I'm sweating and its night and we're about to take a night bus to Hoi An.
The cemeteries along the coast were painted bright blue. There is so much green here and water and hills and heat and scooters.
Soon: Hanoi, then Cambodia perhaps. Or Bangkok first.
Cheers.
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