An entry in the TFS Travel Journal
We had an early flight, but were quite happy to be departing Hue and the Saigon Moron’s Hotel. We checked the bags at the airport, and paid the usual 20,000 dong tax, then humored the cloying Thong by (after yesterday letting him touch our credit cards - something […]

An entry in the TFS Travel Journal
Ugh, the worst, over-stuffed pillows ever, but we improvised with bath towels. Breakfast was nothing to type home about, and we set off with Thong after a ridiculous attempt at storing the computer in the hotel’s safe and having one of the women attempt to “securitize” it by […]

An entry in the TFS Travel Journal
Another morning of jet fly-overs. Milton rented one of the hotel’s bikes and went to cruise the city. A nice contrast to Saigon, as Nha Trang is still fairly large (250,000) and bustling, but quite manageable and not so much in-your-face. It was also great biking […]

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What a wake-up call: we’re a few hundred meters from the airport - which also serves as an air force base - and we heard jets (T-29 trainers from Czechoslavakia, we later learned) taking off and landing from 6ish on. We had the very nice breakfast buffet, […]

An entry in the TFS Travel Journal
We enjoyed another international smorgasboard for breakfast, then checked out and loaded the lovely Mercedes for our morning city tour. First stop was the former National Palace of the President of South Vietnam, complete with the famous tank that drove through (and over) the entrance gates in 1975 […]

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Finally, a full night’s sleep, though we did use earplugs as the chaos of outside never ceases. We enjoyed the fruit we’d purchased in the market yesterday (a Washington apple and a deliciously juicy local orange (the skin of which is actually green)), then went downstairs for the […]