Home and feeling at home are often on my mind. Bill and I travel a lot, trying to find out as much about the wider world as we can. The best part for me is seeing how people live in other countries—what kind of shelter they inhabit, what they eat, how they treat each other.
Here are some unedited photos from our trip to Vietnam.
Kitchen window on an alley in Hoi An.
This child in Bac Lieu was excited to greet us in English.
Four generations of one family at Horizon Bungalows in Tam Coc. The young man in the white shirt owns the lovely small hotel. The baby is his youngest son, nicknamed “Sumo.” Every morning his father (left) and grandfather (right) come by for breakfast. Two men at home in a floating village in Ha Long Bay.
Heading home at dusk, Ha Long Bay
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About Alexis
Alexis Rankin Popik, author of Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate, is an award-winning short story writer whose work has appeared in The Berkshire Review and Potpourri Magazine. She has penned numerous articles about local history that have been published in Connecticut Explored and the University of Connecticut School of Law and The Hartford Seminary publications. A former union organizer, Popik traveled the country educating shipyard workers about health and safety and founded a labor-management health plan before turning to writing fiction full-time. She lives with her husband in New England.
