A Ben Abroad

Look at these crazy stats! These are for youngsters; they taper off a few percentage points as age increases. In October of 1887, Fran...

The Reunification Palace is one of the most historically and architecturally interesting sights in HCMC, and it shows. It might not off...

There's something about a stoic, silent figure that inspires the poetic in me. What is their mission? My neighbor is usually on her tiny...

In my last post we heard a bedtime story about the origins of the Vietnamese people (TL;DR: Viets are spawn of a fairy and a dragon, who ...

Red club! BTW Kat's shirt is an outline of Wisconsin with "curdlandia" written across it. LOVE IT. In January I had what...

A re-creation of an apothecary's cupboard, above the stairs. One of the last days of my roommate Elena's time in Vietnam (as a m...

It's usually about this time that I just put the laptop away and start surfing reddit and imgur. I'm pretty lucky in the fact t...

The hour is almost here (on my side of the globe, at least): 2014 is slowly making way for the new calendar year. 2015, you ready? But...

Lisa's Butt in her New Pants approaching the second spire of Crazy House by cement ivy walkway. It makes sense... trust me. Note: T...

L'usine  (151 Dong Khoi Street, HCMC) aims for a specific niche, and nails it: the creative crowd that loves euro-influenced brunch (a...

Have you lived? Have you taken down Metallica in a room the side of your bedroom, on a microphone stuck on 'echo'? Have you pill...

2012's design, hand-stitched with painted buttons. For several years now I have produced my own Christmas Cards for my family and fr...

Why Travel Now? After receiving many questions about my motives for traveling, and Vietnam in particular, I wanted to share with you ho...

[Note: While I'm processing my first week teaching in HCMC's public primary schools, please enjoy some pictures of a fancy chur...

July has been a great transition month for me as I get used to my new house/city/country/culture, new neighborhood, my lessons, and antici...

[UPDATE: The walls are white! There are posters hung! A new homemade light fixture! And... no more finding nemo shades! We feel positively g...

I couldn't find much info on this statue, which is a shame - I like the stylized torch on top. As one Google user states in their r...