I have millions of Dong

I finally arrived in Vietnam today. Traveling makes me very tired so this blog may be a bit ramblie. See, I'm already making up words to describe my state of mind.

Last night we spent in Pattaya Beach Thailand. I spent a lot of time in Thailand before I joined the military and frankly Pattaya just depressed me. I had remembered Thailand as a beautiful and serene place with a colorful culture. Pattaya represents all things that make my skin crawl. It's incredibly Americanized and built around the tourism industry. It was bearable until the sun went down. Then the whole city was transformed into this bizarre sex market. Ick, so depressing. Of course it made me ever so grateful to have been born in the U.S. where popping balloons with darts shot out of your genitalia isn't a common profession. I'm pretty certain that I saw more acts of sexual "shock and awe" last night than most people will see in a lifetime.

But now we're in Vietnam and slowly getting closer to the final destination. So far I have spent 14 hours on a KC135 which makes a cramped United Airlines Express flight feel like the Concord. I'm so anxious to get to the site and start working. I haven't had much of a chance to take pictures yet but hopefully tomorrow I'll do a better job of snapping some. This blog definately needs some darn color.