Sorry for the delay our trip is over and I haven't even said too much about it. Too bad I didn't know that the Internet was either a little hard to come by or we were just not going to have any time to blog about it while there. I'll recount the ups and downs through photos and stories.
Kathy and I ready to pass out because we got plenty of sleep at the airport...not.
We tried to sleep on the benches but they are not comfortable at all. The airport designed the seats to have very hard metal arms that stuck out far enough so you couldn't lay down. But, in the end it was sort of good that we didn't sleep because we got adjusted to Vietnam time quick (a day or so) and we slept on the plane.
Trouble is I lost my wallet on the plane or airport. Good I didn't lose anything that I couldn't cancel. Like all our cash.
As seen in the pictures we are much happier to be in Taipei or is it we got some sleep finally. China Airlines would be happy to have us as a before and after example of how comfortable their flight is. Well it's not that comfortable, just comfortable enough to get one hour of sleep which is better then none at all.
A trip to Asia wouldn't be complete without a face mask that you wear 24/7. Now I wouldn't be to enthused with putting on one in the states as people would quickly point you out as a loony, but in Asia people wear them all the time. On the flight to Saigon a good portion of people had them on while they were driving their scooters (more on that later). Reasons I gathered they wore them were to keep out all the dust and dirt that gets thrown in their face from the millions of scooters in front of them, H1N1, and Diesel fumes (which too bad doesn't really help with diesel fumes). Kathy and I preferred to have them on because H1N1 because it was not uncommon in Vietnam and after being their for two weeks its definitely not as clean as the states and would be easier to proliferate. Kathy's cousin even fell victim to the piggy flu after we left. That wasn't to appetizing because on a few occasions we went to her house and ate food with her. We did notice she was wheezing on the last day, but she's better now.
I didn't really like wearing the masks, though. They fogged up my glasses all the time and it was hard to breathe. But those are small in comparison to getting the piggy flu and ruining your trip or time back home.
Kathy and I ready to pass out because we got plenty of sleep at the airport...not.
We tried to sleep on the benches but they are not comfortable at all. The airport designed the seats to have very hard metal arms that stuck out far enough so you couldn't lay down. But, in the end it was sort of good that we didn't sleep because we got adjusted to Vietnam time quick (a day or so) and we slept on the plane.
Trouble is I lost my wallet on the plane or airport. Good I didn't lose anything that I couldn't cancel. Like all our cash.
As seen in the pictures we are much happier to be in Taipei or is it we got some sleep finally. China Airlines would be happy to have us as a before and after example of how comfortable their flight is. Well it's not that comfortable, just comfortable enough to get one hour of sleep which is better then none at all.
A trip to Asia wouldn't be complete without a face mask that you wear 24/7. Now I wouldn't be to enthused with putting on one in the states as people would quickly point you out as a loony, but in Asia people wear them all the time. On the flight to Saigon a good portion of people had them on while they were driving their scooters (more on that later). Reasons I gathered they wore them were to keep out all the dust and dirt that gets thrown in their face from the millions of scooters in front of them, H1N1, and Diesel fumes (which too bad doesn't really help with diesel fumes). Kathy and I preferred to have them on because H1N1 because it was not uncommon in Vietnam and after being their for two weeks its definitely not as clean as the states and would be easier to proliferate. Kathy's cousin even fell victim to the piggy flu after we left. That wasn't to appetizing because on a few occasions we went to her house and ate food with her. We did notice she was wheezing on the last day, but she's better now.
I didn't really like wearing the masks, though. They fogged up my glasses all the time and it was hard to breathe. But those are small in comparison to getting the piggy flu and ruining your trip or time back home.
