Steady Footsteps

Virginia Lockett, of Steady Footsteps, works with an autistic boy, Muhn.

Working with Steady Footsteps at a children's school for the disabled in Da Nang.
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Good Morning Vietnam

5am on a Da Nang beach in the early morning light.
In a terrible guest house with no hot water. Hard pillows. & not much else around for miles. Just Patrick & I.
Hungry. Broke. & a little homesick for Mom's home-made meatloaf.
(home-made anything really..)

Lucky.
for everything I've seen & experienced thus far.
& everything I will experience until I fly home in February.
I'm incredibly lucky. So, so incredibly lucky.

Looking out onto the ocean, realizing California and everything I tried so hard to distance myself from is out there somewhere.
Everything has come together & fallen apart in the past two months... I've lost most, & won few.

I wouldn't change a damn thing.

Vietnamese Chess

Elderly Vietnamese men gather at the Ngoc Son Temple on the Hoan Kiem lake every afternoon to play in friendly matches of this version of chess. Often getting quite heated, they always keep the competition good-natured. You don't need a translation to understand the jokes being thrown back and forth.