2002-07-21 - 7:22 a.m.

hanoi 7.23 pm

when i say torrential downpour, i mean a lake of water passing through a city. i'm typing and my feet are ankle deep in water. there are frogs being swept away in the street lake. my friend and i walked through and felt strange things pass our feet, we were knee deep.

i love hanoi.

everyone tries to rip you off here. it's insane and i've been here for two hours. with another american. a wild one from nyc, lives in bangkok.

i haven't heard from the peruvian and i'm disappointed. i may just get the f. south to the beaches sooner than expected. hehe. scuba the south man, that is sounding nice in this lake of a city.

the streets are small, filled with neon burgoening signs carving out space in a traditional, communist country.

the lights are blinking.

i'm outta here.

god damn, if ever there was a time, i really want to join the others and have a cold beer and laugh about the rain. i really want to be inebriated.