Hanoi is loud, polluted, frenzied, yet calm and beautiful. We are exhilarated and terrified, scandalized and fascinated, repelled and intrigued. It has only been four days, but it seems far longer. There are so many new sights and situations to process that time seems incredibly compressed. It's hard to comprehend that this will be our life for at least a year. And that we will probably find that which now seems exotic will become mundane, the amusing turn annoying, and people and things we don't yet know exist become fond parts of our lives.
We post these pictures to give you an idea of how rich and strange it all is, but really it's the on-going context, the texture of life between the snaps that make this such a wild and lovely journey.
And that you'll just have to come here and experience for yourselves. We hope.
Hanoi is a tranquil city of lakes and trees as well as a frentic streetscape of motor scooters.
2 comments:
I check about four times a day to see if anything new is up with you guys. And then, BAM! POW!, there are four new posts. This is great! I almost feel like I am there.
Love - Steve
BTW You have to get over this dog thing. It is just meat (and not cat after all) - try it.
It's interesting that some cultures that eat dogs also have pet dogs. I guess it's like one of us having a pet cow.
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