Life's a beach...
Well at least our life today was a beach, or more accurately - on the beach. We pretty much slacked the entire day away on the sand in front of our villa, reading bad paperback crime novels and watching the waves crash on shore. Of course, we did have to make the difficult decision about exactly what lunch and fruit drinks to have delivered to our lounge chairs, and then once or twice we took the long 20-yard trek back to the villa to get something else to read or to use the bathroom. Other than that, we didn't move a lick for over 7 hours.
We even stayed out there during a rainstorm - about an hour or so of time, but hey - it was unlike those Seattle rains. This rain felt warm and occurred when the air temperature was about 85 degrees (who knew rain could be like that?). No Goretex needed for us! Besides, we were sheltered on lounge chairs under a thatched roof umbrella - that's my idea of riding out a storm.
Today is our last night in Nha Trang - and tomorrow afternoon we fly to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon). That's the last stop for us on this trip - and we are sad that we have only 5 days left before leaving Friday night to head back stateside. Somehow it has gone both slowly and quickly at the same time.
This section of the trip was so relaxing and enjoyable - and I'm still trying to figure out how I can hatch a scheme to just stay the balance of our trip here and skip HCMC...alas, that scenario seems unlikely given that it would eat up significant budget. It's times like this one that I really wish both of us were less innately driven by managing scope and budget!!
Oh well, as much as we've enjoyed this respite, it will be fun to get back to real Vietnamese street/city experiences, not just a resort. Wait a minute - who am I kidding? This is the cleanest we've felt since we left Seattle!
So, it's time for feeling travel-grungy again; you know, that state you're in when you travel to a really hot country and you realize that you have become those tourists that you normally move away from because they smell. We'll post from somewhere in HCMC after we get settled in. Translation for those who might have missed earlier posts from our first days in a new city: "getting settled in" means we will proceed to get lost in yet another Vietnamese city and walk around in circles refusing to take out our Lonely Planet guide with the map for fear of being seen as tourists. Yeah - because taking out the guidebook is the only clue that we're not local.
Did I mention that I'm both the whitest and tallest person around except for the people we spot from Germany? Later...
We even stayed out there during a rainstorm - about an hour or so of time, but hey - it was unlike those Seattle rains. This rain felt warm and occurred when the air temperature was about 85 degrees (who knew rain could be like that?). No Goretex needed for us! Besides, we were sheltered on lounge chairs under a thatched roof umbrella - that's my idea of riding out a storm.
Today is our last night in Nha Trang - and tomorrow afternoon we fly to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon). That's the last stop for us on this trip - and we are sad that we have only 5 days left before leaving Friday night to head back stateside. Somehow it has gone both slowly and quickly at the same time.
This section of the trip was so relaxing and enjoyable - and I'm still trying to figure out how I can hatch a scheme to just stay the balance of our trip here and skip HCMC...alas, that scenario seems unlikely given that it would eat up significant budget. It's times like this one that I really wish both of us were less innately driven by managing scope and budget!!
Oh well, as much as we've enjoyed this respite, it will be fun to get back to real Vietnamese street/city experiences, not just a resort. Wait a minute - who am I kidding? This is the cleanest we've felt since we left Seattle!
So, it's time for feeling travel-grungy again; you know, that state you're in when you travel to a really hot country and you realize that you have become those tourists that you normally move away from because they smell. We'll post from somewhere in HCMC after we get settled in. Translation for those who might have missed earlier posts from our first days in a new city: "getting settled in" means we will proceed to get lost in yet another Vietnamese city and walk around in circles refusing to take out our Lonely Planet guide with the map for fear of being seen as tourists. Yeah - because taking out the guidebook is the only clue that we're not local.
Did I mention that I'm both the whitest and tallest person around except for the people we spot from Germany? Later...
posted by ToddV at
6:37 PM
