About 30 hours from the time we left Jefferson until we stepped off the plane in Hanoi, but it was quite comfortable. Lots of good food on the airplanes, dozens of good movies that I hadn’t seen, and every person I sat next to didn’t know English and I don’t know Chinese and they were skinny so I slept a lot and read a lot. Nice trip. We drove about 4 hours to Halong, Vietnam and the farms and scenery are amazing. Vietnam is the number one exporter of rice in the world and they farm it all by hand. It is so fun to see all the fields and the water buffalo and the people young, old, woman, men and children working the fields with hand tools. We did a lot of praying as we drove along. Tomorrow we are taking a boat ride out to Halong Bay where there are 1969 islands and is one of the world’s natural wonders with grottoes, caves, and lots of birds. Great group on the trip  that gets along great, and our guide Xe is wonderful.