Review
"...an informative and engaging travelogue replete with gorgeous color photography, detailed maps, and poignant personal observations..." --
Midwest Book Review, April 2002This book was a prizewinner in the travel/recreation category, summer of 2003. --
Colorado Independent Publishers Association
From the Author
I was once drafted and sent to Vietnam. My country did great wrong there, but I discovered a beautiful land and I wanted to see it again without war in the way. In 1998, I did. I knew I could write better if I did it again, so I went again in 1999.
I'm a photographer who came back from each bicycle trip with about a thousand photographs. But only 159 of these fit into the book, along with maps and two drawings by My, who is in Da Nang.
I did the Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City bicycle ride a third time in 2002. This time, I came back not with a book, but with a program of photographs that I present to various groups.
Those few who still think the Vietnam War was the best thing ever invented won't like me, or this book. They may give various reasons, but this is usually the real one. Other comment has been very encouraging, including that from veterans. Some people lost track of this mysterious land for a while, as I did. But I like to discover a success story! And Vietnam is a geography not easily forgotten, populated by a brave people.
The book has been thoroughly reedited and improved since the earlier CD version, though not quite as many photos would fit into the paperback edition.
