The next in a series of raw, mostly unedited videos called “What It’s Like.” This one from near Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam.

I’m sure most of you remember our past ‘Guest Traveler,’ and a college friend of mine, Brian Triplett, and his 8-month trip around-the-world that we wrote about in a post last July. Well, after circling the globe it seems he didn’t shake the travel bug just yet, so he’s recruited a friend and set out on an equally adventurous endeavor: to walk across The United States of America.

In the spring of 1971, my American father received a phone call from the US Military informing him he’d soon be drafted for a tour of duty in the Vietnam War. Thirty-five years later, I entered Vietnam with a backpack in a dust covered bus with a cracked windshield, and willingly paid money to crawl through the underground guerrilla tunnels that slithered beneath the dense foliage of the Vietnamese jungle; tunnels that most from my father’s generation would have paid large sums of money to never see.

Thanks for all the concerned emails and phone calls from friends tracking me around the globe, although I am quite far from the recent earthquake in China. Hong Kong, where I am right now, was unaffected by the tremors.