Vietnam in one easy post

I have fallen off the blogging wagon... I seem to be in good company, though. My pals Casey, Mike and Joe haven't been regular bloggers recently either, but that really isn't an excuse.

I figured I would try to post the pictures from my recent trip to Vietnam recently.


Vietnam 2006 Pictures

I think this one pic summarizes a lot of what we saw there: Beauty from rubble. This is a close up of "tile" in a wall, composed of broken ceramic pieces.

The Vietnamese have been kicked so many times over the past thousand years that all the historical artifacts have largely been destroyed. But they take the fragments and build it back up again, resilient as any culture. They have resisted domination for a millennium -- their language, race, food and culture remains remarkably intact for being occupied by the Indonesians, French, Chinese, Japanese and of course, Americans.