The Traveling Tigress

Today is Christmas, and I’ve been thinking about forgiveness. I visited the War Remnants Museum today (formerly the American War Crimes Museum) and it makes me awed–and humbled–that the Vietnamese have basically forgiven (and now welcome) Americans. To Americans, it’s the war where 50,000 U.S. soldiers died. But to the Vietnamese, it’s the [...]

…and I hope you all are having a much merrier Christmas than I am. Yesterday’s “four-hour boat trip” turned into a 13-hour nightmare–well, actually, up until we arrived, it was only 13 hours of standard Third World travel (I’ll write more about that later). After we arrived at 2am, though, we spent half an hour [...]