Grocery shopping in Hanoi…..wow……geez, I’m sitting here just laughing…..out of sheer exhaustion……! It’s……..I don’t even know where to start….. Let me back up a bit…..I’d stayed at the hotel in the Old Quarter for 5 days, but obviously I couldn’t stay at a hotel forever, so Mike suggested I stay at his place until I get a job and find a place of my own. … Continue reading Sensory Bombardment / Sensory Overload
After 20-some years of being a vegetarian then a pescetarian, I recently ‘broke veg’. It happened a little more than a month ago while Mike was still in California. I was at his house. We’d had a drink or……two……and he was eating something that smelled delicious. I asked what it was and he said something like, “Shrimp wrapped in bacon and smothered in yummy sauce…”…..or … Continue reading Food
Since I’ve been here, I’ve been staying in what’s called the ‘Old Quarter’. I understand it’s the oldest continually developed area of Vietnam. It’s an incredibly busy, bustling place. Motorbikes, cars, bicycles and buses zooming by at a pretty fast pace considering that the sidewalks are just about completely taken up by vendors and one generally must walk along side the street in order to … Continue reading In the Old Quarter
It started……it started…..when did it start? I could say it all started when Mike said ‘Hey..’…but that’s another story for another time….. This particular chapter of that story started somewhere around November 2011. After 10 years of self-employment, Mike sold his landscape business – he’d had enough….but that, of course, meant he needed a new source of income. He’d been a teacher years before and … Continue reading Welcome to ZiggyTraveler!
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