Tumbleweed

After being in Asia for roughly five weeks, we're getting ready to return to the US so I thought I'd draft a blog post from our last couple weeks of travel. It's been great to catch up with Ginny's family (her folks in China and her brother in Singapore) as well as visit Vietnam which we have fond memories of from our bike trip in 2018.  It was such a relief to visit the mountain city of Da Lat after the sweltering humidity of Da Nang and Hoi An. Da Lat is at 1500 meters above sea level so the weather is quite a bit cooler than the rest of Vietnam. While we were visiting, the temperature never exceeded the 70s so it was very nice and we even managed to wear long pants and long sleeves a couple times. One of the highlights was visiting the Crazy House which you kind of need to see to believe. It's hard to descri be but it's a  whimsical, surreal, and organic architectural marvel that blends art, nature, and a touch of the fantastical and you can even stay there i...