The brand new Nhat Tan Bridge opened in January 2015.
So here we are, playing a bit of catchup while traveling, again, in Hanoi, Vietnam. We're in the process of adding a second focus for this blog over the coming weeks - building a tiny house - but in the meantime...Hanoi at night, from a third floor balcony overlooking some banana fields with the Nhat Tan bridge off in the distance. Listen in below.
Read MorePitting peaches - keeping diseased pits out of circulation and out of the compost. Methodical, necessary.
Here we have snippets of some of our projects and everyday tasks that instilled quiet minds, healthy bodies, and simple satisfaction -- continuing on in the spirit of those last two lines of Mowing by Robert Frost (in full in the last post),:
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.Read More
My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.
Listen in to Gillespie's Beach.
Read MoreA moody Vietnamese ballad and the reverberations of our minibus, accompanied by low clouds, dark green hills and coffee beans drying by the roadside. Expand this one minute clip into three hours time and you have our travels from Pleiku to Quy Nhon.
Location:Pleiku, Vietnam
The game took place under the stairs, atop coolers, next to a chicken butcher and a hair dresser. Meanwhile, the rest of the market pushed on. Listen up, below.
Location:Phnom Penh, Cambodia
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”