Adventures By Design

In which the travelers begin the long journey home (wherever that is!)

We arrived at our hotel, but had to wait an hour for someone to check out before we got a room. We checked in to our room, and slept for a few hours. Eventually we got up, ate lunch, and went to coffee shop where we checked our email and updated our blog. We left and (unsuccessfully) looked for a new camera bag for Ric’s Canon. We did however find souvenirs for our nephews, and even successfully bargained the vendor to a fair price. Returning to the hotel, we packed for our final flight of our Asia Tour 2008. Purple clouds formed on the horizon, and bathed Hanoi in an impressive thunderstorm. We slogged our way to our taxi to airport (and for the first time ever, didn’t get cheated by the driver!). Hanoi’s airport isn’t well designed. Clearing immigration took longer than we expected, and cost more than we liked, but at least all the officials we spoke to were polite. We paid $60 (2 people x $10/day x 3 days). The chairs were plastic and more fitting with a visa violation than Thailands cushy sofa. Finally we boarded our flight to Incheon.