With Southeast Asia in the rear view mirror, we headed back to the Middle Kingdom for the third time this year. Given China’s strict policy on swine flu, our biggest concern (other than missing the flight, natch) was making it past the quarantine officers at Guilin International Airport. Unfortunately, some bad dim sum in Katie’s stomach was conspiring to make that as difficult as possible, striking at the absolute worst moment: after clearing health inspection, but before passport control. It’s a no-man’s-land with nothing but immigration forms and security officers, and no bathrooms to speak of. Katie endured bravely, though, and we make it to baggage claim without incident.
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Well, today we have fallen four weeks and many thousand kilometers behind on our blogging responsibilities. Let’s pick up where we left off: Laos. After the beating we took from Cambodia, we were eager to leave that country and our anxieties behind. So as our plane swooped low over the Mekong and the city of Luang Prabang we forced ourselves to be cautiously optimistic about the next leg of our trip. We had our near death experience (apparently a must-have for any real traveler), now we could get down to the fun part of traveling.
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Having had our fill of the North, we set off next to see a few spots in Central and Southern Vietnam: the old coastal city Hoi An, the city-formerly-known-as-Saigon Ho Chi Minh, and the river town Chau Doc near the Cambodian border.
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Well, we’re off to the races now. On Wednesday, August 26 we said goodbye to our students, packed up, and shipped out of Korea and on to Vietnam.
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It looks like our time in Korea is done (“Teacher, finish!” as our kids would say). We’ve spent nearly 365 days here and now it’s time for something new. We could be responsible and head home to start job hunting, grad school, and/or real life, but instead we are going to take our money and run. We are young and stupid and to be honest, we have never been under the delusion that we are going to live forever. So here’s what’s next:
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