rainy day

Day 26: Biking in the Rain

Some blog posts, reflect some of our days: they are boring. There’s not much to do in Takeo on the weekends, and we relished the downtime. We slept in, we watched movies, we sat at the only cafe in town and sipped iced coffee and worked on our blogs, and then we got caught in a torrential downpour. “Jake said to bike in the middle of the road at night,” Andrew warned me before we set off for the volunteer center after going out to get Cambodian take out for dinner. “Why?” I asked. “He said you never know what’s going to jump out at you when it’s dark. He said he has killed a bunch of snakes.”

Day 4: A Rainy, Low-Key Day in Hanoi

A bit worn out still from the move out of Seoul, the day in Kuala Lumpur, and the night spent in the airport, we both welcomed the rain and the excuse to relax in and around the Hanoi Backpackers Hostel. We planned and booked trips to Halong Bay and Sapa, chatted with fellow backpackers, wandered out for lunch, only to come back in to camp out on our computers for a bit, and then wandered back out for some banh mi sandwiches made in a makeshift “kitchen” consisting of a portable burner and a couple of portable cabinets. We sat on stools an average American would deem fit for a three year old and ate our sandwiches before we schlepped back to bed.