Wonder how many years it took for her to accumulate that many photo's....altho..I have about 1100 of our Alaska trip of 6 weeks that I find impossible to edit (delete).

I've been to Viet Nam twice but we've done it self-tour both times. We're not really organised tour people. It is remarkably easy to self-tour in Viet Nam, easier than you would think. April is a nice time to visit. For ideas you could check out the Vietnam forum on TripAdvisor. Some people have recommended reputable tour companies they have used. One thing I would say is that if you do use a tour company you should use one based in Viet Nam, as overseas companies tend to add on a huge markup. You will need a visa to enter Viet Nam and you can either pay a lot and get one beforehand by sending your passport, passport photos and the application form (available online) to the Vietnamese Embassy in the US along with the payment (fairly expensive) or you can get it for less than half the cost by getting an approval letter from a Vietnamese travel agent, then taking the letter, appropriate paperwork, passport photo and USD 25 to the Visa on Arrival desk when you get to Viet Nam. If you arrive in HCMC the wait to be processed can be up to an hour, in Ha Noi it's not generally much of a wait. If you take USD to exchange for VND, take clean, crisp, undamaged and undefaced bills- they won't accept even a tiny tear in a bill. Don't use USD to pay for things- some will tell you you can, and some places will accept them but at an exchange rate favourable to them :-) You can also get VND out of an ATM if your bank doesn't have a huge foreign use/exchange fee (some do, some don't). Three star hotels are very nice, about the equivalent of a nicely furnished, clean ordinary hotel, and they cost about $30-50 a night. Often they include a simple breakfast. Just make sure there's an elevator, if that's an issue for you.Five star hotels have a lot of things you may never use (business facilities, gym, etc) and cost about ten times that (I kid you not). We've loved the three star hotels. What sort of things do you want to do and see? How long do you have to visit?

My husband wanted to buy me a kindle for christmas and I said noooooo I have too many hard copy books I have not read yet. He said that is the point, maybe we could get into the guests bedrooms. Nooo, I said, I want to keep my books, what if the kindle malfunctioned and I lost all my books that I downloaded? Anyway he bought himself a kindle, but he did not get rid of his hardcopy books..but seriously Could that possibly happen, you loose your downloaded copy of books on kindle? I have over 521 books that have been catagorized, so far that have been counted and catagorized. That was several years ago. We have built in book shelves in both guest rooms for mine and my husbands books, plus the books our children left behind...if we both bought a kindle a piece do you think someone would be interested in these books? or just good for kindling? Who would you suggest we call?

Hope you have heavy duty antibiotics. I ended up with a root canal for mine. My face got very swollen. Endo dentist gave me oxycontin afterwards but I felt so much better without the abbcess that I never took the pills!