I was making coffee this morning, and it occurred to me that I mislabeled the image below...a few days ago I called it pepper, but I'm correcting myself as it's obviously not pepper when you compare it to the image above it in the original post.

Coffee Beans!

Cafe

Ho Chi Minh Traffic

Ho Chi Minh Traffic

Ho Chi Minh Traffic

Christ of Vung Tau -  a statue of Jesus, standing on Mount Nho in Vung Tau

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Black pepper (i.e., salt and pepper)

More pepper

More pepper

Shelling the pepper

Vietnam

I got through customs and immigration without a hitch. After picking up my bag, I walked out of the airport and heard my name being called. It was my aunt and uncles. We did the customary greetings and then headed into a taxi. Everything was almost what I remembered from 10 years ago, with the streets packed with motorcycles-mopeds and a few cars and taxis sandwiched in between. Vietnam was less about sightseeing and more about seeing the family I haven't seen in over a decade!