Hanoi!

chao ban, hello from Hanoi! We've made it. Much of this whole trip was planned out of a desire to get to Vietnam, and we are here, we have a little over three weeks. It feels oddly familiar and "homey" to be here, maybe because of the time we've spent with the Vietnamese monastics at Blue Cliff, but we both slept about 10 hours last night after downing a bowl of pho and wandering circles around our hotel eating treats on the street and not getting killed by motorbikes, which takes a lot of effort. We have a week before Jill joins us for 2 weeks, and we are going to go on the slow program, taking it all in and not rushing to try to see everything and go everywhere.