Sights of Vietnam, thoughts of home

9 September 2010, 8:56 am

TRAVEL, so ‘tis clichéd, broadens the mind. That comes, of course, with the presupposition that there is a mind to broaden in the first place. Vietnam – okay, Ho Chi Minh City to be pinpointedly specific – produced an altogether different effect: It imploded the mind – to thoughts back home.... Read More »

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