Hello again, from Da Nang, Vietnam. As mentioned in my last post things here becoming less restrictive, but many non-essential businesses are still closed, tourism still hasn’t picked back up and most of the public areas are still sparsely populated. However, we have had more of an opportunity to see a little more outside of…
We’ve been in Vietnam nearly 2 months now. A Vietnam Visa is only 30 days, but with the uncertainties with COVID-19 influencing entrance into other countries (and the fact that our 2 flights out of the country have been cancelled), we’ve extended our Visa until the middle of June. So, I’ll begin with a timeline…
After our wonderful experience with sustainability in Australia, coming to Vietnam has been a jump in the opposite direction. There’s no recycling here. No apparent sustainability efforts. At stores you get plastic wrapped boxes of individually plastic wrapped perishables and plastic bags for every little thing you buy. It’s nearly impossible to shop here without…
Our first experience of Da Nang was hailing a Grab (Asian Uber). A 15-minute ride was 20,000 Dong; roughly $1. We went outside to await our driver and were swarmed by taxi drivers. One guy had a picture of Grab on his phone and tried to convince us he was our driver. Others told us…
This post is not going to be about a typical experience in Da Nang. It is highly influenced by the effects of the Coronavirus, more recently referred to as COVID-19. As such, this is observational both of traveling in this city and in these times. I’ll start with getting here: Our flight had been booked…
At the end of each leg of our trip, my wife Evalynn and I want to conduct and publish a quick debrief of our experiences and lessons learned. Here’s it for Melbourne. What was the most surprising thing about Melbourne? Eva: Nothing really surprising. Ehren: How much it’s like a US city… there was no…
Whoa… so much to catch up on since last I posted. But this post I’m gonna stick to the live music scene. It seems the more places I went, the more places I found that I didn’t have the capacity to visit, but I can give you the highlights of the 12 venues I/we visited…
It’s been a crazy couple weeks. My cousin Barry, currently living in Malaysia, came to visit. It was a week I won’t soon remember. He did get me to try some Chinese “cuisine”. How it goes: He makes fun of me for not wanting to try it, Eva says that I’ll like it and I…
What can I say? Not all of us are culinary tourists. I’ve always been a picky eater. I hear it’s now being referred to as a Selective Eating Disorder… sounds less petulant and more costly to diagnose. But, as with all bad habits, there comes a time in life when you can decide to make…
For the past 6 months I’ve been working on the Global Safety & Environment team for my employer. I’m very grateful for this job because it’s allowed us to travel and have the lifestyle that we never knew we always wanted. Working in this field, though, is bound to influence how you think about the…
