At Elephant Falls outside Dalat.
Hai Van Pass
A street in Saigon
Villages outside Phong Nha
The best banh mi I ever had came from Madam Khanh in Hoi An.
A bicycle rickshaw conveys a passenger through the streets of Hoi An
Halong Bay
Paradise cave in Phong Nha
A Buddhist pagoda in Hue
The highlands on the road to Dalat
Mt Fuji from the “Shinkansen” (Bullet Train)
That’s rural Laos in the background.
Luang Prabang
A pedestrian bridge in Hoi An
The Oreo was a dutiful little workhorse.
The Tokyo subway hurts my head.
A park in Tokyo
Paradise cave in Phong Nha
Rain on the road to Hue
A Buddhist shrine I stumbled upon at my hotel in Saigon.
A valley in Sapa, Vietnam
A December day in Kyoto
Dinner with the hostel in Dalat
Me, Ross, and “Supsan”
A mechanic working on Joel’s bike
A market in Saigon
An example of traditional Southeast Asian architecture (Hoi An)
The road out of Dalat
Giorgio, Jess, and Joel.
The view from the top of a mountain on Cat Ba island
Japanese snow monkeys at a sanctuary in Kyoto
Clouds over Sapa rice terraces
A valley in Sapa
Towers in Tokyo
A sunset on Cat Ba Island
I found one craft brewery in all of Southeast Asia. It’s in Saigon and it’s called Pasteur Street Brewing Company. Not surprisingly, it’s owned by a couple of Americans.
A street in Tokyo
A Buddhist temple in Luang Prabang
The Thu Bon river in Hoi An
Bangkok traffic
“The Oreo” — my mobile home for six weeks in Vietnam.
A view of Ninh Binh
Tokyo
A view of Kyoto
Hanoi traffic
On the road to Mui Ne
The Tokyo subway map really hurts my head
The view from a $15/night hotel in Mui Ne, Vietnam.
Rice terraces in Sapa
Halong Bay from Cat Ba
Ross in Sapa
The sun sets on Monkey Island (Halong Bay).
A monkey on Monkey Island in Halong Bay. There are lots of monkeys here.
Hoà n Kiếm Lake in Hanoi
Andre wanders into the bush (Tam Coc).
A temple in Hoi An
What a couple dollars will buy you in rural Vietnam.
A mountain goat in Tam Coc
Paradise Cave in Phong Nha
Packed and ready on the road to Mui Ne.
The road outside Mui Ne
A typical restaurant in Hoi An
The Mekong river
The sunset in Phong Nha
A sprawling valley outside Dalat
A river in the Phong Nha region
A bamboo forets in Kyoto
The harbor in Cat Ba Town
A market in Hoi An
Paradise cave in Phong Nha
A friendly lady from Sapa
A Cat Ba fishing village
A shrine in Kyoto
Places visited in Southeast Asia
The region around Ninh Binh looks a bit like the Shire.
I got a little drunk in Bangkok
A view from a mountain in Tam Coc
Paradise cave in Phong Nha
An empty road is a welcome site when you’re motorcycling through Vietnam—or really anywhere.
