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146 POSTCARDS FROM VIETNAM

We’re talking about motorbike traffic. Motor-
bikes swarm Vietnam like monster bees.
Buzzing, roaring, put-putting down every
street, along every alley, across every side-
walk, squeezing through the aisles of outdoor
markets. There are 90 million people in Viet-
nam and 45 million motorbikes. Cars? Maybe
a couple million..

156 SURF’S UP IN MOROCCO

The most recent trip was to surf off Morocco’s
Atlantic Coast. After four years of working as
a staff writer at The San Diego Union Tribune
and hanging out on the city’s many beaches, I’d
developed a middling ability to ride a long-
board on easy waves at La Jolla Shores and the
Tourmaline Surfing Park.

DANCING THROUGH THE CANAL
164 Dancing was foremost on my mind while planning

a recent Panama Canal Cruise. I needed a ship
with at least one great music venue where my hus-
band and I could let loose—and it had to open at a
reasonable hour (late nights are not our forte).

Alison DaRosa

Alison DaRosa is a six-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for travel writing,
the most prestigious prize in travel journalism. She served 15 years as Travel Editor of The
San Diego Union-Tribune and was the award-winning editor of the San Diego News Network
Travel Page. Alisonwrites a monthly Travel Deals column for the San Diego Union-Tribune
and is a regular freelance contributor to the travel sections of the Los Angeles Times, USA
Today and AOL Travel. Learn more about Alison on her website, www.AlisdaRosa.com.

Carl H. Larsen

Carl H. Larsen is a veteran journalist based in San Diego. He now focuses on travel
writing, and issummoned to pull out his notebook whenever there’s the plaintive cry of
a steam locomotive nearby. In San Diego, he is a college-extension instructor who has
led courses on the Titanic and the popular TV series “Downton Abbey.”

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