Hanoi Eating breakfast at the Paramount Hotel on Ngo Huyen in the Hanoi French Quarter, I happened to share a table with an Albuquerque man now living the last five years in Bangkok. He had been operating a flying school in Thailand, but was now working on various contracts with the World Wildlife Fund. He …
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Race or Class in Vietnam
Hanoi We were all used to seeing facemasks of different sorts, fashions, and colors on the tens of thousands of scooter drivers when we first navigated the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and then later Hanoi. What was more curious in the stifling heat and humidity was figuring out the long arm stockings that …
Hanoi Surprise
Hanoi We arrived here last evening to the acrid smog and smoke of fires in the countryside as rice husks were being burned in piles for kilometers near the airport. We felt coming into Hanoi like we were on bridges with grades up and down for kilometer after kilometer around water we could not see …