Sitting here in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam this is what a can’t wait for when I get home

• To sit on a couch and watch TV
• To walk on the sidewalk and not have to be on constant alert for motorbikes, cracks, holes, trees, people, restaurants
• To drink water from the tap
• My soft comfortable bed
• Not having to take my passport when I travel within the country
• Chocolate
• Chocolate thick shake

Now that I am back this is what I have noticed:

• It is quiet
• No hooking of horns
• Predictable traffic
• Baby prams everywhere and taking up space
• So many cars
• It is hot and dry, I am use to hot and humid
• Things are very expensive, lunch is a minimum of $10AUD, in Vietnam I get it for $1.50AUD
• It is cleaner here but just as dusty
• Things don’t seem to change here as quickly as they do in Vietnam
• Activities are done by machine not by hand if possible
• Internet is crap and expensive here
• And NIELS IS HERE:)

Couple of funny things that have happened to me today:

• I was waiting at the lights on Ipswich Rd (busy road in Brisbane) on Zippy (my Scooter, and yes it has a name too, RIP Oscar) and I heard this wolf whistle, it took me a while to register it and then I turned around and there was a guy with long hair in a ponytail in a black old beat up ute.  He then smiled at me and said hi.  I was a little shocked, not really what I am into, so I smiled back and then he said how are you going? I said OK, then thankfully the lights changed and he put the pedal to the metal and took off.
• So after that interaction, I continued to the mall to get some lunch and I found a park next to other motorbikes.  After lunch I then left, but to do this I would have to bring out one of my Vietnamese riding skills, riding in the wrong direction.  It was flawless, but then, an elf was walking past, yes an elf, and he looked at me very disapprovingly!  Well it is Christmas.