Friends, Covid-lockdown, Scuba Week and A constant barrage of tropical storms. How we’ve made a terrible mistake but found ourselves living the best way we possibly could.
We’re trying our best to take it day by day in a world where our long term planning has been subject to the worst case of Murphy’s, “Everything that can go will.” From multiple covid lockdowns, early typhoons, late payments and geopolitical tumult we’ve found our time-table a half year off kilter putting us in places during seasons we originally sought to avoid by large margins. A normally pretty stressful trip has had an avalanche of new problems being poured on top of it, however by focusing on the day by day and taking it as easy we’ve rerouted most of it to a place of the inevitable we can’t accept, focusing instead on the pleasures of day to day, eating, activities, new friends and a bit of photography. Our mistake was getting caught in the Rainy/Typhoon season but we have chosen to focus on the silver lining.
A Chi Oi smiles over her cup of tea. 
Extra lanes were added to the Hoi An Boat rides. 
Strong winds damaged many lanterns. 
Tam Tam Cafe 
Water flooding around the Japanese Covered Bridge 
The flooded courtyard of a temple
The largest distraction was literally the largest, the Ocean. We’d daily go to the beach and spend hours there. Originally from hidden beach(now gone), we’d discover a great place known as La Plage full of cheap drinks, food and beach access. I’d set up my computer there to do a bit of work. I’d photo-edit, chat, swim, body board during the storms and just surveying the damage from beach to beach.
As the storms hit we hit the beaches with sandbags. The was a call at different spots to help build sand walls to fight erosion and us with a few others bagged, carried and placed tens of thousands of sand bags against the walls. In the morning we’d work together bagging and it the afternoon I’d teach.
Through the last few storms most have lasted
Plus food and drinks have kept us occupied. I’ve become obsessed with eating roast ducks from 140k-280k , surveying a wide range of places for settling on the best from Com Linh at 280k. Reason for this is its at least twice the size of the cheaper ones and lasts twice as long keeping our family of three happily fed for 4-5 days. Each time we received it, it was like getting a perfectly cooked turkey dinner.
Then as things rolled around we were able to trick or treat for Halloween. It was there that we would meet people in charge of World School Hub. If you’re a family coming through Hoi An I can’t recommend them more with their innovative lessons and kind participants.
stravaging 