I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

It's Amateur Traveler, episode 804.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about rice,

paties, and food tours, towering limestone islands,

empty beaches, a temple to literature, and the mausoleum for hoochi men, as we go to Hanoi and northern Vietnam.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk

about Northern Vietnam. I'd like to welcome the show Paul B. Kennedy from Vietnam Travel with us.com

who's come to talk to us coincidentally about Northern Vietnam. Paul, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Chris, and greetings from... in Vietnam. Paul, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Chris, and greetings from Hanoi, Vietnam.

And what is your connection with Vietnam?

Well now I live here, now I have a business here, but I had left New York one day on a birthday trip and eventually I just never went back.

It's really the long, long story is I kept traveling and with no plans and when I got to Vietnam I decided to

stay here and since then like I said I opened up a business I live here. It's my home now.

Excellent.

I'm moving from New York to New Jersey. I moved from New York to New Jersey.

That's New York to New Jersey so done.

Yeah, it's been there.

Excellent.

And why should someone come to Vietnam?

It is so amazing.

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