Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 3 months since I last posted on here. For anyone who hasn’t kept up (and really, why would you?), since my last post I spent 6 weeks in Australia, then traveled back to Los Angeles. A funny thing happened while I was there.
My initial plan was to spend about 3 months in LA – visiting friends, writing, getting back into shape by riding my bike every day and finally, planning the next leg of my world travels.
Within a week of getting to LA, I had gotten a call totally out of the blue about taking on some part time work while I was in town. It ultimately didn’t work out, but right on the heels of that discussion I got another call.
“How would you like to work on a project in Vietnam for a while?”
While traveling, I didn’t come to any earth-shattering revelations about where my life would take me next, but one of the things I put on my “to-do list” was to work internationally on some limited term projects. Ideally, I’d live in a new country every year and really have the opportunity to absorb the culture, language and environment.
I didn’t even have time to start talking to people about that possibility before I got a call from a former co-worker. Within 2 days of our first conversation, I was signed on to work in Ho Chi Minh City, aka Saigon for anywhere between 3 months and 3 years.
So, now I’ve been here for a month and I’m loving it. I’ve gotten settled into a beautiful apartment in District 1 and the work’s been great.
Which leads me to: what’s up with the blog?
Obviously I’m not traveling the same way I once was, so things will be changing but I DO plan to kick-start the thing and get back into gear. The focus will be on Saigon and the oddities of life here. Regular features like Brain Drops will be back periodically and I’ll share more about the project that I’m working on (as much as I can without hurting the confidentiality of people or the company I’m working with).
In other words, The Freedonia Post is back in business! Because SOMEONE has to make up for News of the World getting shuttered.
