So I’ve been traveling a lot lately. I have made my way throughout Vietnam, Cambodia and now I am in Thailand. Current plan is snagging a two or three month visa and working on an island in a hostel for a month and then going to northern Thailand and working in a hostel or Muay Thai gym for a month. This and the next few posts are recapping the last few months and everything that has occurred. I have mainly been M.I.A. due to having crippling food poisoning three times, sun stroke and severe dehydration. BUT now I am back!

Asia Trip Day 26: Da Lat => Mui Ne (2/9/19)

• Daily Highlights:

  • Woken up at 2:45am by some ding dong’s loud, obnoxious snoring

  • Woken up again every ten minutes from 5:30am - 6:30am by the same ding dong’s alarm going off and him clearly not hearing it

  • Finally I said fuck it and woke up at 6:30am

  • Boarded my bus at 12:30pm for a four hour journey to Mui Ne

  • Finally got to my hostel at 6:30pm, they said they were overbooked. A small mob of people started to form around the desk because they apparently overbooked for five other people.

    • The hostel ended up booking all of us a five person hotel room for the night. You may be asking yourself, “A five person hotel room, I thought there were six people?” And you would be correct. They just pushed all of the beds together in the hotel room, and threw in an extra mattress on the ground. But they comped us coconuts. The guy working the front desk was a complete ding dong.

  • Got fried rice for dinner and then had the worst food poisoning of my life for the next twenty four hours. I could not stomach food or liquids for the entire time. Almost went to hospital. See photos below, pre-food poisoning.

Asia Trip: Day 27 - Mui Ne (2/10/19)

• Daily Highlights:

  • Spent a total of 125,000 VND the whole day ($6 USD for the day)

  • Woke up at 2:45am and proceeded to be violently ill for the next twenty four hours.

    • Continued vomiting every twenty minutes until 9:00am

    • You never feel quite as alone, when your vomiting alone half way across the world in 95 degree heat.

  • Changed hostels at noon

    • Cab driver was being a jerk because I was moving slow due to having very little liquids in my body. I would have yelled at him, but moving to the cab took up all of my energy. The woman at reception of new hostel kept on wanting to call me an ambulance. I looked like I felt, which was terrible.

  • Got into my new bed and slept for nine hours

    • I could finally keep down water and crackers!

  • Woke up at 9:00pm and was seriously thinking about going to the hospital, but bumped into a buddy of mine named Fawie

    • He gave me electrolyte replacements and SAVED MY LIFE

  • Slept for another twelve hours and woke up feeling fine the next day :)

Asia Trip: Day 28 - Mui Ne (2/11/19)

• Daily Highlights:

  • Slept in until 9:00am and felt AMAZING

  • Breakfast:

    • 2 eggs

    • 2 slices of toast

    • 1 order of hashbrowns

    • 2 orders of hotdogs

  • Lunch:

    • Green detox juice

  • Watched Jason Bourne movie in my room to rest

  • Watched Apocolypse Now for the first time

  • Dinner:

    • Double hamburger with fries

What a difference I day makes. Yesterday I had my head buried in a toilet, contemplating going home to the U.S. and now I’m lounging by the pool, crushing a double hamburger.

It’s so interesting how many Russians there are in Mui Ne, and just in Vietnam in general, and how they all suck. Most of them are rude, pale/ sunburned, overweight, pretty heavily tattoed, overly pushy, and poorly dressed. Also most, if not all, of the signs and menus are in Russian.

Asia Trip: Day 29 - Mui Ne (2/12/19)

• Daily Highlights:

  • RESTED

  • Went to sand dunes and adventured

Asia Trip: Day 30 - Mui Ne => Saigon (2/13/19)

• Daily Highlights:

  • Slept in, worked out and did abs. Feelin fine.

  • Took a five hour bus to Saigon.

    • For some reason I really like calling Ho Chi Minh, Saigon. No idea why. It just seems cooler, foreign and more exotic.

  • Met up with my buddy Craig, who is from Boston, at our hostel

  • Walked around and wandered Saigon

  • GOT SUSHI

    • This was incredible. It’s really the little things that make a difference. This was the first time I felt stuffed in weeks and it’s from food I actually want to eat. Great day.