Southeast Asia during the rainy season is always a gamble. Well, that depends on what you are gaming on. A sure bet is that most afternoons you will have one of those real “ frog stranglers”. You know the rain that has drops the size of baseballs, the ones that splash when they hit dry pavement. If Uncle Ho was alive he would be backstroking to the central committee meetings today in Saigon. It was amazing to see how people are at home in their surroundings. Children playing in the rain and then washing their hair just to make good use of the extra water. I guess there is a good reason why most Vietnamese wear little thin plastic shoes, they are underwater about half the year. My personal favorite was the stunning woman in 6 inch heels about 8 inches deep in street water slogging along without missing a step. A couple of hours and the rain had stopped and the streets were completely alive again. Sitting with a cold Tiger beer is not a bad way to wait out the flood.
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