The long and winding road

I can't tell you how good it feels to be not sitting on a bus. Last night I spend 20 hours on a bus getting from Hoi An to Mui Ne, a sleepy beach town on the coast of southern Vietnam. The bus ride was hot, stuffy, crowded and featured some of the bumpiest roads I've ever had the displeasure of cruising over.

On the upside, I don't have to get on a bus again for four days, and when I do, it will only be for four hours to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).

I know I'm a total tech-addict, but I'll tell you, I don't know if I could have made it through without my laptop. I had downloaded The Pursuit of Happyness, and the latest episodes of The Office, Ugly Betty, and Law & Order SVU. Considering that most of us on the bus got maybe two hours sleep total, and there were no reading lights, I was so grateful to have some mindless entertainment.

So here's to laptops and to iTunes and to Morpheus. Technology rocks.