We use Facebook for quick updates, and make full blog entries as often as we can. Here are some updates we first posted on Facebook for Vietnam. Danang and Halong Bay, Vietnam A few interesting pictures. We saw the fire-breathing dragon bridge in Danang with 20,000 other tourists and locals. We watched someone carrying four foot tall ming vases on a moped. We...
The ghosts of the Chu Chi tunnels are thick here. They linger in the dank, humid air as spirits of soldiers – spirits of men who were brutal killers and those who were brutally killed here on this earth beneath our feet. The killing happened during both the war with France in 1945 and later during Vietnam Civil War, which the U.S. took part in on the side of...
I, Tanner Croddy, went to four movie sets so far this trip. The first movie set was on Castaway Island in Fiji, where the movie Castaway, starring Tom Hanks, was filmed. The second movie set was the Hobbiton, in Matamata, New Zealand, where The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were filmed. The third was in Halong Bay, Vietnam where King Kong, Skull Island and the...