Well, that's all, folks!

So this is the last entry - I'll be wrapping things up. According to Blogger, this is my 61st entry, which means I reached double my goal of posting once a day. I have a few friends (not naming names) who started reading this but didn't bother to keep going because "you just wrote so much!" That's fine, I don't mind - I like telling the good stories over again anyway. I'm very excited to get nice and pompous and show-offy and start every sentence with "Well, when I was in Vietnam for a month . . ." It's very exciting to hear about all the people who have been reading this, and it's great to get comments from friends and family and know they've been following along and be able to share this incredible experience with them - if you've been reading this all along, or just a little every so often, or even just once, please, drop me a comment or send me an email so I can thank you, or at least know. Like my mother once said about seeing psychologists, it's an incredible luxury to have people listen to your feelings and ideas and care about what you have to say. It has gotten addictive - it makes me want to start a new blog just to record my daily life, to force my inner thoughts about regular life on the world. But I don't think that's going to happen. But next time I go traveling (and I definitely will be going traveling again) I'll probably start up a new one, with another title that could be almost clever but isn't really ("Hopeful in Hanoi" was supposed to be a kind of play on "Sleepless in Seattle," but unfortunately there aren't any words that start with H and end in -less that were remotely appropriate.)

In the end, though, this blog was always for me, so that I could keep track of this incredible trip and never forget it. It was only a month, but it was a huge experience. So even though I wrote too much to expect my friends to read it all, I doubt that I actually got down all of my thoughts and every detail of my experience, but I think I came close enough.

So, thanks for reading! I can't wait to see all of you in person now that I'm home. Time to get back to real life, now.