So we have come to the end of three years' worth of dispatches from Danang, and I'm still not sure how I made it. It may be due to copious amounts of coffee; likely it is the assortment of strangers who were curious, helpful, kind or all of the above. Here are a few stories.
Astronauts aboard the ISS see 16 sunsets from space every day, while the Little Prince once saw 44 by moving his chair a few paces, but it only takes one sundown, one quotidian scientific event of light refracted through particles in the atmosphere, to hurl me back into my feelings.
I remember sitting on the beach all those months ago, learning about my roommate's faint familial connections to the Konbaung dynasty and Burma's last monarch, and not quite believing it; now here we were in front of the original Royal Lion Throne itself.
