Choppie 1

It's a bummer there's so little caches in beautiful Vietnam for me to accurately track and record the path of this TB. Yesterday, we were in the beautiful and majestic Mekong Delta, where we did some caching, and today we had another of our driving days; we started on scooter, then minibus, bus, minibus, private car. That's just half of the trip, and that's where I snapped a photo of this TB. We made it to Cambodia! But while in Cambodia, we unfortunately didn't visit any cache which I could add x00's of kilometers to this bugs journey, neither can I add another cou try to its visited list. We came to the boarder just to get out and back into Vietnam because of our visa.

But, again, at leastj can add an image and a note to the journey. After crossing the boarder back into 🇻🇳 and a hilarious no -bribing hour at the boarder, we drove back to Ho Chi Minh City for the last time, and got on aong sleeper bus trip to co tongue our journey north. Another minibus, a sleeper bus overnight, followed by the last minibus of the day took us to Đà Lạt for tomorrow's adventure (to follow). Quite a unique day we spent with this bug!!

After a pretty long trip on the sleeping but to Cần Thơ, Laura and I walked around the city after which we decided to go on a gruesome and pretty long trip. We headed in this direction on our scooter to spend a night in this town. The drive was quite long but great, and a lot lighter with one backpack in Cần Thơ and the second one in HCMC. After checking into our hotel, I opened up the GC map, and this simple offset cache was only a fourteen minute walk from our hotel, so we decided to leave our scooter and get some steps in. After a quick walk through some absolutely adorable side roads, we bought something yummy to munch on and soon arrived at the posted coords, where we managed to figure out what we needed and quickly got to the stash. There, we were real happy to not only quickly find the cache, but also that we were the first ones since 2019 to visit! I'm really happy this TB got to come with us on such an adventure!

Today Laura and I had big plans to move to another part of the country, and after making travel arrangements for the early morning for a five hour long bus ride to the east of HCMC, we decided we'd leverage off the early wake up time (and the early opening time) of this museum, and we'd both learn a little more about the painful past of the war-Era Vietnam.

We walked past this museum yesterday and I felt pulled by the raw presentation of a different view of the war, one of oppression and oberpowement. We woke up early and walked for about half an hour to the museum, being some of the early visitors just as the museum was opening up. We spent nearly three hours here, it was intense, educational, and very interesting. After our tour of the three floors was over, we spend another half hour outside; Laura resting on a bench while I walked around the war machines, thinking of how much my dad would have lover to see these. It was a pretty I tense visit; both psychologically and physically. But before we left, I did look around the bottom side of the tank, knowing this stash probably wasn't here. I didn't find it. But I wasn't too upset by that; the visit to the museum was anough of a reward. And this TB came with us!

On today's nice evening walk, Laura and I came to this park and before dinner, visited the two stashes here, next returning to this one. After we found/replaced it, we went to the nearby dock to enjoy a nice view and dinner, all while in the company of this TB!

In this park, we had a bit more hope of finding two archived caches, since they were found posthumously. Nonetheless, we weren't so luck here. It was a nice park to visit nonetheless...!