by Lee Daley, Sausalito, CA

On a month-long trip in Southeast Asia, we spent two weeks of December ’04 in Vietnam, a time of warm and balmy weather. Our trip culminated in a festive Christmas Eve celebration in Ho Chi Minh City, still colloquially called Saigon by visitors and residents.

For my traveling companion, it was a return to memories of a people and country that, in the early ’70s as an Army soldier, had charmed and captivated him with its natural beauty. For me, it...

by Jane B. Hanrahan, Woodbridge, VA

Brasília, Copacabana Beach, Amazonia, Iguazú Falls: these Brazilian attractions I had enjoyed in past years. However, when I arrived in Fortaleza in November ’03, I chose to explore a central section of Brazil’s coast instead of specific points of interest.

Slicing southward on a map from Fortaleza to Salvador cuts off a triangle that juts easterly into the Atlantic. On that segment of land with about a thousand miles of coastline, I spent...

ITN printed a number of letters on the subject of using the Internet while traveling. These appeared in the October ’03 through January ’04 issues. A few more have been received since then with useful information. Here they are.

On a trip to the U.K. in November ’03, in Edinburgh I noticed they had telephone kiosks on the streets with Internet terminals in them.

You just go in, put a pound coin in the slot and you get 15 minutes’ connection time. The response rate isn’t as...