Desitnation – South East Asia
“Now there comes a time. In every man’s life. When decisions. Have. To be made. Whether to toil. To Labour. Or just plain piss your days away.”
- Dropkick Murphy’s
I had a hard year. Multiple projects at work. 2 trips to the hospital due to anxiety related issues. A couple friends died. And a whole other slew of what African Americans (People of colour?) call “white people problems”.
I’ve had a strong desire to get back into some kind of creative mode. I have ideas of books I’ll never write, lamps I want to make, music I want to record, and paintings I want to paint. It can’t ever be completely suppressed. One of my latest infatuations has been eggs benedict and I was thinking of doing another blog where I seek out and try to find the best in Melbourne, then turning it into a book and get rich and quit my job. Genius!
So anyway I was at work thinking of where to go for a holiday. I thought about going to Vanuatu, Fiji, and New Caledonia. Mapped it out and got costs but found out it’s monsoon season there and New Caledonia, although beautiful and with French topless models laying along the beach, is quite expensive. I’m planning on going to Europe in a year so I didn’t want this trip to be over pricey.
Vietnam kept coming up which is a very popular travel destination for Australians. The American in me grew up with war movies and like the majority of Americans, think Vietnam is dangerous and scary place where you’ll step on a homemade landmine and get your legs blown off. Well this is 2011 ladies and gents and Vietnam is actually an amazingly beautiful and accommodating place to go to and I’m going to prove it.
So although Flight Centre (main travel agent in Australia) has not fully booked everything, my plan is to go to Cambodia to see the temples at Angkor Wat, go tubing down a river in Laos that has basically been turned into a wet bar for tourists, sleep on an old Junk (traditional Vietnamese sail boat) on Halong Bay, and sleep in a hut-like eco-lodge place in Sapa which is in Northern Vietnam and is supposed to be an amazing quiet and peaceful landscape.
Adventure, relaxation, tranquillity, and a means to put some life back into this shitty blog.
Just what the doctor ordered.
Well Hon, we have never met but I have been watching your blog for a few years now and your last few posts gave me the strong impression that you have not been a happy camper for a while. So I hope, above all else, that your Vietnam holiday sweeps away any cobwebs and recharges your batteries!!
Thank you. I’m a fighter. Get busy living or get busy dying Stephen King once wrote. I’m looking forward to a change of perspective and some insane heat and humidty.