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Mumbai, India in a Day

Mumbai, India in a Day

Mumbai, India!! I have always wanted to go to India. Most of that has only to do with my name, and btw there are a lot of streets/shops named Chandra or some variation, but also because of the craziness of the culture and the delicious food. I think I’ve seen a fair amount of photos [...]

Tokyo, New York, Boston

I was really excited to get off of the plane in Tokyo because my legs were absolutely killing me.  It really wasn’t that long of a flight, but I was actually scared they were hurting so badly.  I didn’t have my boarding pass for my flight back to NY, so I asked a Al Nippon [...]

Last Day in Saigon

Today we finally had the chance to sleep late so we didn’t get up until 10:15am, despite cats having a brawl outside of the window around 7:30.  Saigon has some really odd city sounds.  I packed my luggage but still had to get another suitcase to carry all of my purchases that were still in [...]

Angkor Wat and Return to Saigon

We woke up today at around 8:30am, which was sleeping pretty late considering we had been getting up at of before 7am most days.  I showered in the glass shower (think carnival money machine) and got ready.  It’s worthwhile to note that I did attempt to do something with my hair each morning, and this [...]

Sofitel

Today, like most days, started out very early.  We got up and made it downstairs to catch the shuttle that would take us to the 7:30am bus to Siem Reap.  We were down there at 7am and no shuttle, so I ordered us some toast and we ate that while we waited.  The shuttle didn’t [...]

Flying! And RUPP (Part II)!

Despite the promise of an extremely exciting day, it was very difficult to get up at 5:30am.  I got up first and got ready, then managed to wake up Dave and we were downstairs pretty much ontime (6am).  There, Eddie and Lee were waiting for us (although Lee had gone upstairs to wake us up [...]

RUPP (part I)

Today started out way too early.  I set the alarm for 7:30 so that I could practice my talk a bit.  Around 7:45 I started after getting ready, so I had about 15 minutes, during which I just went through my slides once and looked through pics of me that we had already taken because [...]

Let the Cambodian massages begin!

Today we got up at 6:35am for the 8am bus to Phnom Penh..  Actually it was more like 6:40am because I just reached over and shut off the alarm clock.  But we got ready, and I had mostly packed from the night before, and then we went downstairs to ‘check out.’  They are holding the [...]

Cu Chi Tunnels

I woke up at 7am with the alarm and we both got ready to leave by about 7:30, for the 7:45 bus.  I’m thinking the next time we can sleep late, and it’s at least Friday.  Oh well, didn’t come on this vacation to sleep!  Anyways, we stopped to get some oreos and ritz crackers [...]

Day of Contrasts

I woke up before the alarm this morning and started getting ready.  The alarm went off at 6:45 and we were out the door by about 7:05.  I was pretty hungry actually and was craving bread or something like that – it feels like I’ve only eaten meat since getting here.  I figured because the [...]

I ate ostrich!

My eyes popped open at about 6:30am this morning, which I was pretty annoyed by. I didn’t want to wake up Dave so I just found a book and started reading. I don’t know how he knew, but he woke up then and essentially let me know that book reading on vacation was unacceptable. Hm. [...]

Um, so I guess it’s Thursday now

We landed in HK around 5:30pm local time and wow what a view.  It’s just how it looks in the pictures, of course, with all of the skyscrapers and the mountains surrounding the city.  Just beautiful, even though it’s a pretty gray day.  We all made it off of the plane pretty quickly and there [...]

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