V inh is about my age, (which meant that both of us awkwardly called each other “older brother” for the duration of the chat) with an 8 year old kid and a family to raise. I took a twenty five minutes long ride to the airport in his Honda City. It was early in the […]
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Read an earlier posting on uber driver conversations here. Sang drove me from district 4 to district 2, a total distance of 8.3 km. He drove a Yamaha Exciter 150, and he had a real helmet for me to wear (this is not always the case for motorbike drivers in Saigon. My anecdotal experience is it’s been
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While I have a motorbike and have been riding it for a month now, taking taxis or ubers is a better way to meet and converse in Vietnamese with others in the city. Plus, when it pours in Saigon, getting a ride in a car is the only option if you need to get somewhere, still relatively
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