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anglorthoglots
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ID 18437
Date: 10/18/2010
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Travel: Where-to-go or wherewithals
am writing to show my admiration to Sailinglady Traveler (http://picasaweb.google.com/sailingladytraveler). I last received her email from Lumbini, Nepal a few days ago. However I met her in person the first time in September last year (2009) when she had just arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I was appointed to meet Carlos through the social website couchsurfing.org at Kim Cafe, De Tham Street in the Westerner Backpacker quarters in downtown Saigon. Sailinglady was hosted by Carlos when I made a cellphone call to him. So three of us, what a coincidence when all the same age!, had refreshment there. I remember Sailinglady having mineral water, Carl and me coffee with milk and ice. Carl told us about his own life and life generally in Saigon for he had lived almost a year there, then wishing to be able to have visa renewed to stay longer. Sailinglady recounted her itinerary and told about her planning for Vietnam tour, and she showed her intention to visit the Mekong Delta and my home province Soc Trang to see and experience how the rice farmers work and live in the area. I promised to host her or at least to perform the work as guide when she'd come to my place. I am also a member, nicked nhan-soctrang, of the couchsurfing website. Because the local authorities' ordinance has strict regulation on foreigner overnight stay at residential house, I couldn't provide her a couch. She had to stay in a hotel in town, 15 kilometers away from my house. I took her to various places in this vast rice-farming area by my motorcycle.
Four days later, she left Soc Trang and the Mekong Delta to continue her tour in Vietnam.
Much later I got her email she sent me from Thailand, then....
She told me in this email that she would head to India. It's been over three years since she left the United States to travel the world. What a strong and brave woman I ever met!
I wish I were her! Could I fulfill my aspiration to travel like hers? I know where I wish to go. I often use Google earth software to search for place to place, making my virtual travel. What I get stuck with is the wherewithals!
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