Random Snaps. "$#*! Hanoi Does.

Moving day. Click to check out his "intel inside" T-shirt.

Everything gets recycled here.

And everything is always under construction.

Rebar is transported by a guy on a motorbike using one foot
to push another guy steering one of these carts.

Trash pick-up at the mouth of our alley.

Full up.

Using an old balance scale.

Washing trotters and guts for market.

Our local butcher shop. Trotters and bellies and ears, oh, my.

You know the eggs are fresh when the hen's sitting right there.

We have Pottery Barn, they have Pottery Baskets.

When the days get hot, you can see the whole family sipping tea
and fanning themselves on the sidewalk outside their shop.

Two things you very rarely see:

People with tattoos.

And panhandlers.

Another way to beat the heat--the on-line game parlor.
They are everywhere, and always packed with teenage boys.

A pure WTF.

Dozens of stores all over Hanoi have identical stacks
of these goofy, colorful reindeer. They have been there
since we came. No sign that any have ever sold.
I'm sure they're connected to Pleasant Goat in some
twisted way. I only know that their innocent, imbecilic
faces will haunt my dreams for years to come.

P.