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in Hanoi.

thailand was....really relaxing :)

beaches

reading

happy hour

eating

did i say happy hour yet?

here a small series of photos from thailand. i have a bunch i need to go through

Ko Pha Ngan

im here.
sorry no pictures to upload.

i dont have my laptop with me.

the shower in our bungalow is giving us issues right now.

2 more days in Thailand :(

Thailand

im here.
alive. having a good time. our first night on samui was really nice.

our ferry leaves in a hour & a half to ko tao

Sagion

arrived today at noon. the driver came & picked us up in the Mercedes SUV

here is the view from the condo i'm staying at.

not too shabby :)

here is a picture of Ryan & i yesterday for his 1st Birthday!

i can't believe its been 1 year already....i'm gonna miss him too much.

Da Nang

the forearm has scabbed over, but the water makes them lose again. 

gonna take a few more days i think. hand & chin is still taking the longest to recover

i arrived this morning around noon.

it is BEAUTIFUL..

this city is about to blow up with mega hotels. right now its still pristine & has not been discovered by many people yet. on the way to the hotel i saw billboards everywhere advertising mega hotels going up. open white sand beaches is what is all sitting there right now.

back from the hospital

i went to the local hospital here. it was so crowded & scary looking.

sorta like out of the movies you see a clinic in a small town. dirty.

there was probably like 1000 people there. patients probably like 100.

i don't know what the other 900 people were doing there.

my sister in law & i decided its not a good idea so we went to a different hospital.

this one is a french/vietnamese one. it was a million times better. almost looked like a hospital back home & everything was clean. the staff were pleasent, the nurse was not bad looking either! she took my vitals as soon as i got in. the ONLY thing that was odd was they didn't wear gloves when they were treating my wounds. which was odd.

all they did was remove my old bandages & cleaned up the wounds & stuck new ones on. i wanted to go to have a doctor look at it JUST in case.

$88 USD later i was off on my way.

if i was a vietnamese citizen. i would've been $44.

i have a bunch of pictures i need to upload from SaPa & Halong Bay. haven't gotten around to that much because of the accident. i'm not in real pain. just discomfort. the hand wound is the deepest & hurts the most. looking back, would i take the accident back?

dont think so.

the ride was amazing. i saw some amazing things & met some interesting people.

i still beleive the best way to see SaPa is by motorcycle.

just be a little careful, word of advice :)

today is my last day in Hanoi until Aug 1st. tomorrow i fly to Da Nang for 2 days until the 14th. the 14th i'll be in Na Trang @ VINPEARL for a week.

looking back at my time in Hanoi i enjoyed my time here. i didn't really do any of the regular tourist sight seeing stuff besides SaPa & Ha Long Bay. it was very nice just relaxing & adjusting to daily life here. i say daily life here, but its all subjective. my sister in laws family is well off here. the vast majority of the population is very poor.

home

back home from my 3 days of adventure:

the aftermath :)