Restarting: Australia to Vietnam

It has been the greater part of a year since I've written here. Far too many and far too heavy things have happened to connect the last post to this one, so I will start in the middle and bring that up to today. My 1-year working-holiday visa in Australia expired on 2 March 2019, so a few weeks before that I handed in my 2+ weeks notice to The Coffee Club on Cairns' Esplanade and started saying goodbye to all the friends I had made since moving there five months earlier. The day before it expired I left the country with a very good friend of mine, Masaru, a Japanese college student who opted for a Australian working break in the middle of his studies. We came to Vietnam and traveled together for a week before him turning back to Australia and then Japan, while I carried on going north in Vietnam. Now, here in Hoi An, I enjoy the familiar habits of traveling new places and seeing amazing things. Another post is in order soon with the vast possibilities for the future to be layed out--but until then, tam biet!