Welcome to beautiful Vietnam high up in the mountains, watching the plum blossoms and down in the lower elevations of the valley they fall off and plums are starting to grow They’ve already falling off the trees and began to grow plums. After Tết . it’s a tradition for us to come visit the Plum Orchards of Mộc Châu, Vietnam. It was so cold this morning it was 2°C and I have drove the motorbike for about 20 km maybe only 14 but with the roads here that takes over an hour my eyes were soaked with water coming down. my nose was dripping my hands were freezing cold back in Hanoi. It’s 30°C and then all of a sudden drop from it being extremely hot to be in just above freezing incredibly difficult and where we’re staying one of the windows is just a screen there’s no way to cover it so literally at night when it’s 0°C out there’s no way to plug this window and we try and stay as warm as we can with the heater, but hopefully tonight if we keep the door to the room with the windows is shot, maybe will stay a little bit warmer. But trying to take a shower or do anything in the bathroom in the morning is absolutely impossible with how cold it is but the plum orchards were absolutely beautiful. It was so nice and how many people recognized me and asked to have their pictures taken with their families with the beautiful blooming plum trees. In this area it seems people are so much kinder. Sometimes they may be a little bit confused, but I don’t get hate. I don’t get the wrong pronouns. Used a second time maybe in the beginning they might and then if I just say no and give them the cracked one and they use the cracked ones, no questions asked, why is it that America is so hateful compared to the many places in the world? it’s been incredibly hard on me as my migraines have been getting incredibly bad and I’m still being ignored by my senators and veterans administration so I don’t know how much longer I can hold out .











