• Christie MitchellRTW 2022Christie Mitchell
    Our train
    They delivered this meal to our seats. $1.87!! Didnt try the "meat" under the chopsticks. 🤷‍♀️Snack cart that came around. Great kettle corn for 60 cents!Elaborate Burial sites EVERYWHEREWater buffalo!A man "herding" ducksBurial site on the family farmNot sure what these are used for but every house had them - barn?More burial sitesIt rained for only about an hour of the tripBeautiful countryside

    Vietnam train

    October 1, 2022 in Vietnam ⋅ ☁️ 86 °F

    We took our first train since we left Europe - from Da Nang to Nha Trang, around 10.5 hours south. It wasn’t too bad - not the quality of what you’d find in Europe but was okay. In Europe you hardly feel like you’re on a train because it’s so smooth, noiseless and fast. This train brought me back to my childhood (Dad worked for the railroad so we traveled by train a lot). It rocked and you could hear the rickety-rack of the tracks. It was nice. ❤️

    Flying is really cheap here but I felt like I was missing out on really seeing the country just flying over it. This allowed us to see so much of the countryside. Loved it. A lot of people rent motorcycles and see the country that way, but with the rough weather I’m not quite adventurous enough for that.

    The rain continues to follow us. I don’t know what I expected coming in monsoon season, but I guess not quite this much. Forest Gump apparently taught me nothing about Vietnam.

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