A haphazard chronicle of my inevitable misadventures during a year in Vietnam and points east.

p.s. I'll be pitifully grateful if you send me email during my exile: TravelerKaty@hotmail.com

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A Word to the Wise IV

If you are planning to hire a mini-minivan to take you on a day trip 50 miles out of town on every conceivable quality of road (except good), have the driver take you for a spin around the block a few times before your final decision is made. Does the air conditioner cut out on bumpy roads? Does the driver ask for directions every other block? Does the vehicle turn on only after the driver fiddles with little wires under the steering wheel? Does the engine sound like it's completing it's 300,000th mile? If any of the above are true, keep looking. If all of the above are true, I think we know the same driver.

© 2002 Katy Warren
posted by Katy at 3:51 AM