Sightseeing: Cu Chi tunnels. Used by the Vietcong in the American War. Could you fit down there? Could you live down there?

A view of the Saigon River from John's office at SSIT

Indian Temple...Buddhist Pagoda...Catholic Cathedral

A Job offer

My name is Patti Buratti Cushing. I have been married to John Cushing for almost 25 years.We have two wonderful boys. We have lived in Southern California for all of our married life, and here is our new adventure!!

Back in 2008, John was offered a great and exciting job at a new port in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. What to do? We talked it over with the boys, and it was unanimous...take it! We have never been expatriots before, many people do it. Now it's our turn. So we may be here for 3-4 years depending on the opening of the new port being built down the coast in a town called Vung Tau.

The goal of this blog is to give everyone reading it a good snapshot of life in Vietnam. A developing country, with wonderful people, a very hot and humid climate, a strong national pride, a tonal language and an up and coming nation filled with possibilities...here we are...and here I go into the blogosphere!!