What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
Why Ho Chi Minh City? It is crowded, noisy, scruffy, crazy, but always interesting and things are happening all at a break neck speed.
If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.
Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent.
For me making friends with locals is hard, mostly because my lack of Vietnamese language skills and being retired I have limited access to locals in the work place. Though for me it is hard meeting expats as well, as most expats work here and make friends through their jobs.
Overall the cost of living in Ho Chi Minh City is cheap and if you can stay away from Western restaurants and use just local products in your everyday life it's really cheap.
Thailand has good medical care and even though I haven't tried it, Singapore is said to have high quality care also.
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.
Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.