大咖福利影院

gobot wrote:

We rented a motorbike and I'll tell you what I did like: the big island.

You are absolutely right about this lovely place.聽 My wife and I toured it once when we were not pressed for time on our way back from her hometown of Ben Tre.聽 She thought it might be a nice place for us to buy a home as it was close enough for her to see her mother when she wanted to but sufficiently far enough away that her mother would not be visiting too frequently. 聽 聽She had never been there because in her youth the ferry that she took did not stop there.聽 Believe it or not, as a teen during the post war neo-Stalinist period she was a smuggler of sugar, which was a rationed item but more available in Ben Tre than My Tho.聽 聽I don't know what they would have done to her as a teenager if she had been caught.聽 It certainly would have been embarrassing for her father who was a party member.聽 Now that the bridge is in, it would be a practical place to live as you could have convenient access to the city but still be in a quiet country environment.聽 I have a strange love for ferry boats but they would not be good in a medical emergency.

I don't know if you could call it an attraction, but visitors to My Tho should try the local coffee which is branded as Bao Minh.聽 This is the same name as a big insurance company that insures many of the coffee plantations in the highlands but I don't know if that is the connection.聽 Bao Minh (#2 blend is most common) reinforces my experience from Hawaii that a good brand is only 20% in the beans and 80% in the roast.聽 This brand gets it just right.