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Saturday, February 19, 2005
THIS IS THE END: Arrived back home last night a little after 8 PM, EST, or 8 AM next Sunday morning Viet Nam time. We don't want to calculate the precise number of hours spent in and out of planes and airport lounges since waking very early in room 422 of the Chains First Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, because this makes Da-dee cray-zee. But I seem to be fairly coherent at the moment (8:06 AM), with laundry tumbling in the basement, and a row of film cartridges on the kitchen table ready to be taken out for developing later today. I'll post the best shots later. What to say? First, apologies for not blogging from the Southeast Asian road. Internet cafes were easy to find, but connections were very slow, slower even than my home dial-up, and the last thing I wanted to do on this trip was spend lots of time hunched over a keyboard waiting for links to load. So what I'm planning to do is a sort of recreated diary...each post covering a day or so of travel in Viet Nam or Cambodia, with links to attendant photos. We'll see what the photo processor turns up later. For now, let me just say this: after witnessing children begging for empty cans and bottles, well after nightfall, on a Cambodian beach, either for the recycling fee or perhaps in hopes of using the material in some constructive way (strengthening the walls of their shacks, for instance), you have my permission to pound my face any time I complain about my life. I'll be happy to do the same for you. |
