Man, time is flying! I can't believe I've been back from the Philippines almost five months already. I miss travelling and wish I had the money to travel continually. I hope to have some money coming in from my other websites to give me a little extra money.
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, I haven't been traveling for about five months now and I'm really starting to get itchy feet.
There's a saying…"The ship is safe in the harbor..but that's not what it was meant for"
Sure we can be safe and comfortable…but is that living? Maybe it's existing, but , I believe that's not really living. I'd rather go out in a blast than sit comfortably reliving past memories. My mother, who is 82, tells me that all she has is memories. I want to MAKE memories, not just relive memories.
Enough musing. Gotta make plans.
Bud in Vietnam 1971 Bud in Vietnam 2010
Vietnam Veteran, Bud Brown recently returned after an emotional trip to Vietnam after an absence of almost 40 years.
"I left Vietnam in 1971 and promised myself that one day I'd return," Brown said."I just didn't think it would take this long."
Brown, who was a U.S. Naval Advisor and speaks Vietnamese says he was amazed at how things had changed, mostly, the abundance of scooters in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. "When I left, peole mostly got around on biicycles and cyclos (which are two wheeled bicycles the carry passengers on a little seat between the two front wheels.) Now it's almost all cars and scooters. What was the same? "The people are still very friendly,"Brown said. "Everywhere I went, college students would asked if they could practice their English with me."
During his ten day stay in Ho Ch Minh City (called Saigon by the locals), Brown visited several University classrooms, bought souveniers at the world famous Ben Thanh Market, lit insense and at several Chinese temples, visited the War Remnants Memorial and took the tour at the Cu Chi Tunnels, where the Viet Cong hid and lived during the massive American bombings "The tours were very emotional for me", Brown said, especially the War Remnants Museum, that had lots of photos of the atrocities that happened at that time."
"I was surprised that my Vietnamese came back so easily after all these years," Brown said. Since it was so helpful to me I decided to create a website where Americans and others could learn Vietnamese. It's called Vietnamese101.info. Knowing Vietnamese opened up a lot of doors for me that, I'm sure, would have been closed if I had not been able to speak the language."Brown said."I really waant to go back again, but this time I won't wait so long."
This is the slideshow I just uploaded to YouTube. I used several photos from my latest trip to the Philippines. I want people to know where they can can information if they want to learn Tagalog.
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” I would like to thank DirecTravelAsia for arranging my accomodations for my ten day stay in Saigon, Vietnam. The hotel that I stayed in was execllent and, from the time I arrived till the time I left, I felt very comfortable. I would highly recommend DiredTravelAsia to arrange tours or just accomodations for anyone wanting to travel to Vietnam or Southeast Asia.
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