What's happening.....

It's been a few days so I will try to get everyone caught up on what's been happening....
We walked into Ha Tinh today (Cam Thach Province). It was The hottest day so far. At best I would say I felt like I was walking through concrete. At one point I felt like fainting...really sick but our group covered at total of 50 kilometers. Now I will rewind to the last couple days:
May 16: walked with Doc and Bao Anh and several of Bao's friends who joined the walk for the day. We walked through her village and many people knew her, the walk and were happy to shout encouragement along the way. Despite stomach issues which really made the walking difficult, I survived and my mood improved and I was lucky to get better very quickly. Some of the others have not been as lucky. By the way, there was monkey on the menu that day (seriously).
We covered 24 miles that day and my dead snake count reached 24.
The van was taking 2 of the others ahead to find a place for the night and they were hit by a motorcycle, which happened to belong to a cop. The van was confiscated, needless to say(!)
We were stiopped while walking by a man and he took us across the street to meet his son, who is affected by AO. The father fought in Da Nang and this is his only child. The kid was very sweet and better off than most of the ones we have met. We gave him our email addresses and he wants to try to contact us. We did not give any donation to him because there are so many more severe cases we will see.
We heard that we were on the news again and it was cool to hear because the days are hard and it keeps us going. The mosquitos are horrible and sometimes it's worth just staying in the room at night to avoid them. The next day (17th) we walked through an especially difficult area. Difficult in that I have finally found the Vietnamese that really still have a lot of resentment toward Americans. It was a rough day, alot of weird energy in the villages, alot of pretty bad comments. I try to remember where this is coming from and I don't let it bother me so much. We bombed this area so heavily so I can only imagine what the people who lived through it, and lost family to it, feel when they see us or hear us talk. Some of the elderly people even look scared at times. War.
We walked through beautiful country...along the base of mountains called "long Mountain". There were water buffalo in the river, brilliant green all around. I walked with Bob, Salem and Phuc. I think Phuc is getting some beautiful images for his film. Their is more and more excitement building as we get closer to Hanoi. We reached Ky Anh and were all very tired. Other than the drunk man beating on my door in the middle of the night, I slept really well. No dead snakes today.
So now I go sleep and walk again tomorrow. The temp today was 109 and probably will be tomorrow. We heard of 2 AO kids (very young, 8 and 10) that we will visit tomorrow morning. Tomorrow I will be able to put some new pictures out for everyone.
In the meantime, I miss you all and I fixed the blog so you can now comment, so please try again!