Funny Faces

It's been a slow month for the report. I've been playing with some of the funny camera features on Mrs. Phred's IPAD.

We fly out to Bangkok Sunday morning. I found a long term rental place to stash the Toyota for $3 a day. It's very insecure in a bad neighborhood, but, Hey, what's insurance for anyway?

After Bangkok we travel North to Chiang Mai and do some travel in the back country with cousin Bennett and our driver, Ken.

Then on to Saigon. I never saw any of Saigon except the Ton Son Nhut airbase. After that we travel up the Mekong river through Cambodia and then back to Hanoi and home.

I hope to get enough WIFI to publish a few blogs on nthe trip.

We'll be back late on the 30th of December in time to catch a New Year's Eve party...

Dreading the long plane rides to Asia, but looking forward to seeing some new faces and places.

Good Morning, Vietnam

This is a travel blog, so I am pleased to announce that Mrs. Phred has concocted a plan to visit my old stomping grounds (Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand).

First we'll fly into Bangkok on December 4th. I'll probably be better behaved with Mrs. Phred in tow than I was back at age 24.

After a few days we fly to Chiang Mai north of Bangkok. Mrs. Phred's cousin is a world famous concert pianist who lives somewhere around there. I think he commutes on an elephant. We'll rent a car there and drive to Northeast Thailand to visit the opium warlords in that area.

Ho Chi Minh City was called Saigon the last time I was there. We'll poke around a few days and then transfer to a river boat on the Mekong River. We have stops in Châu Ðôc, Cu Lao Gien, Sa Dec, Cái Bè, My Tho, Siem Reap ,Phnom Penhm, Tonle Sap, Kampong Chhnang and Kampong Cham.

We finish up in Hanoi, which was strictly available only by air (no landing) the last time I was in the area.