Nha Trang is a beautiful beach city in Southeastern coast of Vietnam. Here, the Sun is bright and hot, the sky blue and clear, and the people friendly and beautiful. Yesterday I swam in the South China Sea. The water was warm, but the Sun was HOT!

The food? Everywhere in Vietnam the food is consistently the best of any city or country I've ever experienced. My main staple is pho, a noodle soup with beef. It's eaten at anytime during the day or night.

The beers are lagers: Tiger, Saigon, or 333. Last night I visited a Vietnamese brewery (Lousiane Brewhouse in Nha Trang), where I drank a dark lager, which was brewed onsite.

The exchenge rate is about 15,500 Vietnamese dong to the U.S. Dollar. My average meal price is about 16,000 dong. Though a few days ago in Saigon, Bridget, Ethan, and I ate a seafood dinner for 1,800,000 VND! We ate like kings--lobster, crab, shrimp, squid, and clams.

Beer Crazed San Diegans
San Diego is beer obsessed, and that's probably a good thing.

Judging from the quantity and quality of comments on a recent article printed in a local newspaper, San Diegans appear to enjoy high-quality, well-crafted ales. As with 99% of online opinions, you'll have the two cents from the "haters," those who hate everything--beer included, and this article definitely brought them out.

The article, written by Peter Rowe, a feature columnist whose specialty is beer, is written like a program (the kind you get at sporting events), and discusses some of the places--good and bad--to get beer.

Download the PDF "program" here.

Fire Tracking in East County
Ubie Fuzzman is pictured here at Alpine Beer Company, in Alpine, Calif. Fuzzman and I were fire tracking in eastern San Diego County on Wednesday and returned to SD with two growlers: 1 Alpine Ale (a pale ale) and 1 McIlhenney's Irish Red, which were immediately consumed upon our return.