I first heard about Mama Hahn from two travelers in Koh Phi Phi Thailand. I hadn't even planned on going to Vietnam, but after a discussion with these two Australians, and their glowing report about Mama Hahn, coupled with their reported ease of travel in...
In 1966 I was six years old, and just beginning to understand things going on around me. I grew up in a sleepy bedroom neighborhood surrounded by apple orchards and lightly tangled forests, but every night the real world visited through the medium of television...
Someone pounding on the hotel room door when you are midway through a gin-induced sleep is always a bad experience. When the person making the noisewears a military uniform, is accompanied by three grim-faced plain clothed gentlemen, and none of them speak your language, you...