Lady Lightwave: A superhero's travel blog

On another bus, per usual; the Vietnam countryside is lovely…fluorescent green rice paddies full of conical hats stream past my window for miles. I see our bus falling off a very steep cliff in about 3 seconds time, quickly I RACE ahead of light and use my force-field to push the STEELY TONS back onto the road; conveniently swiping a red bull for the driver from a well-dressed Japanese man sleeping in the back. Time flows into place with nothing but an incredibly scary tip-toppy swerve by the driver-primarily to shake things up just a little bit. 

WHAT! Forgetfulness + LUCK the usual combination that consists of the ying-yang relationship of my internal magnetic balance. Jen and I race on a crowded mini-bus en route to the bus station where we will board a much larger pseudo fancier bus to LAO. Little do we know that it’s Goodbye passports at the hotel front desk. So long stamps and visas and a decent photograph from when I was 16 with long hair…hello a most inconvenient future…

UNTIL THE CLOUDS PARTED<<<<<<<<<   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> AND AT THE VERY LAST MINUTE A BEAUTIFUL HOTEL LOBBY CLERK ZOOOOOMS UP TO OUR SIDE -as we are unwittingly on our way to Lao without them (I admit it is indeed much easier on the mind to lose things you don’t know you’ve lost)- WITH TWO AMERICAN PASSPORTS IN HAND. WOW! My REVELATION for the month of June is that the Vietnamese could very well LIKE Americans! (insert arguable quote here) <3 <3 <3 

They can sew ANYTHING for you in this old French Vietnamese city. My list included the following: 2 New CAPES! Among other things, but those are clearly tops.  Freakin Adventure Girl must have jinxed the ATM that ate my debit card. GRRRR. I now have very little cash money now for purchases such as beautiful asymmetrical cashmere coats to send home to the 1st quadrant- this joyful Christmas moment will thus never occur. Unfortunately superheros do not receive any sort of paycheck and thus we become rather reliant on working human jobs to supplement living amongst such a currency-driven society. AH it is most strange what humans do at times! I do believe online businesses are the answer and if I simply could simply team up with someone who’s strengths include Organizational and ACTION skills on a most accurate Gallup strengths-finder test, I have 3 of them ready to start. 

NHA TRANG, Vietnam. FORCE FIELDS EVERYWHERE- natural ones. The sun is glaring down something fierce. It is 9am and the 90’s temps are shooting upwards. The beach is beautiful and funny shaped green rocky islands float in the distance. Cable lines farther down the shore-line swing cars out over the sparkling sea towards a larger island with Hollywood lettering spelling out VINPEARL on its green face; here an island AND an amusement park exist in unison! 

While I was gazing at this beautiful scene, a cable car full of camera happy Japanese broke loose and began to CRASH towards the rocky shoreline----fortunately staring off into space did do me good and in a flash of gold I had a first row view of the cable car plunging towards the jagged rocks and twinkling waters below. I click the shutter, nothing happens! OH NO I forgot to turn my camera ON. Next I click the force field into action with a little too much GUSTO- repelling them back into the air 10x as high as the cable line- but soon enough they were able to resume their photographic endeavors in a field of white lilies beside a ferris wheel. Soon I resumed my post sunning on the beach with Jen. 

I know my friend Will West from university; he is a most incredible and pleasing to look at individual who has been teaching English for a time of no-less than a year in a Vietnam province most famous for their fish-oil. Having met the required length of knowledgeable inspiration, his students awarded him a number of gifts. However beautiful, there wasn’t room in his luggage… and so we decided on photographs as the best keepsake option. The motor bike is really quite nice. For any other freshly graduated overly intelligent individuals thinking of teaching English, I hope the allure of such gifts may help sway you to do the same.