Krouzman Health & Travel Update

Folks, I am on the mend! My immune system and indominatable will ;-) aided by modern medicine are kicking the shit out of the bacteria that have decided to make my body home, for a bit anyway.

My fever is gone. Now I'm just somewhat tired, and the tummy, that I don't think will feel right until I get back to the land of water treatment plants and refrigeration.

Actually within a few days I'll be adding an application to my blog that will give you a real-time readout of my pulse rate, blood pressure and temperature. And, for the medical experts and hypochondriacs among you, my White Blood Cell count, Neutrphil count, and even an hourly update on my C Reactive Proteins! If you have an i-Phone you'll be able to download their new "Jewish Mother" application, which will flash these real-time readouts on your screen every 15 minutes. Pretty neat!

My quick rebound here has added some wind to my sails! I had a fun day today strolling Hanoi, eating some good non-spicy food, talking to the awesome sisters who run the guesthouse I'm staying at, and hanging out with a couple of awesome Slovenians I met on my tour of Halong Bay.

We made a series of Vietnamese Travel Industry Safety videos, improv style, on the street. Super fun, and really good I think. Perhaps I've found a little comedy nitch? God there is so much safety related material here, from non existant guard rails to rusty guard rails to psychotic drivers and impossibly difficult cross walks stalked by psyochotic dirvers. It has been fun.

Tomorrow I'm taking a train 3 hours south of this madness to Nihn Bihn, a large town in a rural area that is supposed to be quite beautiful: rice paddies, limestone mountains jutting like teeth from verdant valleys (how poetic Roni), caves, temples...all the good stuff. I'll be sure to give you a full report.

Then It's back to Hanoi, and a flight to Hue, a city on Vietnam's north central coast, and then from there down to Hoi An and the surrounding area, which is supposed to be beautiful. It's after that that I'll visit My Lai (see previous post), and then perhaps head to the mountains around Dalat before dropping into the teeming city of Saigon. Whoa!

Then almost certainly Cambodia and the ruins of Angkor Wat, which everyone says are profoundly stunning. If everyone says so then I have to go!

And then back to Thailand and a trip to the south, to beautiful, relaxing islands and beaches. Oh my!

So lucky, lucky me to have the freedom and the means to do this. And also lucky me to have such a rich life and amazing people to come home to when it's time! I'll be so excited to see you and any babies you have or may have by then. :-)

Much love,
Roni