East meets West

I flew to South Korea to meet my daughter who had been ‘teaching English’ for a year, at least that’s what she was being paid to do. Mostly all I heard about were the trips to exotic locales and her exciting adventures. Now it was my turn to go with her to see the sights and one of the stops was Ho Chi Mihn City. Or, as an American who’s knowledge of Vietnamese history all but ended in 1975, Saigon.

There are still the French Colonial sectors but clearly there has been some new construction as well. I half expected to see space aliens and wasn’t sure if they would be sporting phasers or light sabers, but in any event it was pretty fantastical. Not as historical, romantic or mystical, but definitely fantastical.