AK-47

yes...i shot an AK-47 today...in fact..much of the time here...i've been trying to cut down on my diet of "poses with tanks"...unfortunately...most of the museums here are quite a joke...other than war memorabilia, everything else consists of pictures hanging on the walls...'cept today's visit to the chu chi tunnels...i took the role of fat homer almost getting stuck in the VC tunnels...it's ridiculous to imagine people crawling around in there for months at a time....soo intricately designed to disguise steam from cooking, flood defense systems, sick booby traps etc...the size of the bomb craters in the once dead zone....is HUGE....its nuts~....but all this traveling just makes you want to visit the warring neighbor cambodia...so one of the following posts will be TOMB RAIDER rather than rambo...

i'd have to say that much culture lacks from this war-torn country...reading up on all the wars the vietnamese have gone through has made me quite nauseous on those bumpy rides into the wilderness....ironically, i think im about to make my first art purchase...im deciding on either a painting or 2 statues...gonna go back and have a look tomorrow...

how come they don't soak the rice paper in water here?...just wrap it while its still starchy and hard...then dump it into the nuoc mam?....is that how you spell it?...bahn xeo today was awesome!  there's something to be said about vietnamese taste in beer....i've spent the past 3 days at dinner drinking 333, saigon beer and heineken...and it must be noted that all 3 of them have this similar aquired bitter taste....this bitter flavor tends to be better when its hot...ur ass is sweating and ur thighs are sticking to your jeans....u know..the warm beer taste that gets real bitter...but since the beer is naturally bitter..you just savor it warm or cold.....

heading to the beach tomorrow...mui nei....but heading to trang nguyen now for some coffee...