Phu Quoc

Our next stop was a little island called Phu Quoc in Southwestern Vietnam. There is a big very developed tourist island in Thailand called Phuket. This place is sort of like Phuket with almost no development. Get there while the gettin's good because you can see the build up beginning. Now the economy is pepper farms (the black spice kind), squid fishing and one little fish sauce factory. Almost all the roads are dirt and at night you can lie on the beach and see the Milky Way. I hadn’t seen it in many years, since camping way up in the mountains in the Western U.S. The kids weren’t even sure what it was when they first saw it. Anyway, here are a few pictures. Double click the small ones if you want to see them better. My good friend and tennis doubles partner in high school died a few years ago of skin cancer so since then I’ve been a big enforcer of these high sun protection swimsuits for the kids. They don’t seem to mind yet. (Jenny is pregnant so I’m required to keep posted pictures of her at a minimum at this point, which I believe most women other than Demi Moore or Britney Spears will completely understand). You could buy seafood at these little shack-ish restaurants on the beach and they’d cook some right on your table. Super fresh and super cheap. The beaches were beautiful. No waves, a la Apocalypse Now, but that is better for the kids anyway.