😩 I Had To LEAVE Vietnam for the USA 🇻🇳 | Solo Travel Vietnam | Vietnam Travel Vlog (Ep. 28)

[@aaroncov]

Nearly all Vietnamese people are very friendly and honest. Except in HCMC (Siagon). I've never been ripped off except in HCMC. Saying that, Vietnam is no different from other countries. Big cities and tourist areas are more expensive and there are more con artists. I've lived in Vietnam for 3 years and have nothing really bad to say.

[@dongheng6613]

Don't cameras and phones get snatched? Wow!

[@Edgesofearth]

- I'm sure it happens. But it happens in every country. I never had any problems..

[@mistermynini5236]

Vietnam is next on my travel experience list (18 countries and counting ;-) ) Looking forward to it immensely after watching your adventures!

[@Edgesofearth]

- 🙌🙌🌏🌏🙏😇 Enjoy!

[@quynhdo1277]

You're a good man with a kind heart:) Thanks for visiting and staying at my Country. Take care.

[@Edgesofearth]

- 😇😇😇✌

[@illj]

I love visiting Vietnam.

[@Edgesofearth]

- I agree!

[@vhltu]

BTW Dr Seuss once said....we may never truly know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. as a Vietnamese, we want to thank you and English teachers out there for spending your golden time teaching English for Vietnamese people. You have made a great impact in many good ways on their life. Happy travel.

[@Edgesofearth]

- 😇😇😇😇

[@1stEarlOfSurrey]

Ouch. To leave after an entire year. I left via Tan Son Nhat airport on a sunny morning in late August 2019. I caught the bus there. When I saw ‘Tan Son Nhat’ on the roofline of the terminal for the first time, my stomach sank. It was over. In front of the terminal, past the car park, I could see there was a small green space of tropical flowering shrubs, and clumps of bamboo. I needed a moment alone, before being taken away, so I headed straight to it, this garden without a house, untamed but domestic. But when I got there, first there was one local man swinging barefoot in a hammock, in the bamboo, then another, then another, and when I got to the end of the little bamboo forest, and discovered yet another barefoot man swinging in hammock, (the fifth), I just fell to my knees beside this local man and wept quietly anyway. He couldn’t speak French or English and I couldn’t speak Vietnamese, but the warmth of his expression, and his complete lack of alarm, he was so understanding. Thank God I’m returning this New Year’s Eve, to Tan Son Nhat, and I’ll go straight to that little garden, because what would the alternative have been..? Those of you caught in the illusion of capitalistic endeavour, you may not understand. But artists, writers, musicians and poets, we know.

[@Edgesofearth]

- This country is so amazing!! 😇😇😇🙏

[@lanciadr]

Is that O'hare airport?

[@Edgesofearth]

- Yep

[@vhltu]

I hope you have a great memories living in Vietnam. 20, 30 years from now, we look back those rainy days and noises, children running on the street, beach...we realize how lucky we are. Life is meant well under our feet....happy travel and have a safe trip back to US.

[@Edgesofearth]

- 😇😇😇

[@deliberatecreation8734]

Your mothers smile was so priceless and beautiful! Ur a lucky man my friend. Absolutely priceless. That smile hit home really hard. Feel blessed as f. 💚

[@Edgesofearth]

- 🙏🙏🙏😇

[@ayeshagonz9495]

goodbyes is not always easy when you are attached with people and places...but we have to continue to live...its always a lesson learn to cherish every moment we live with family, friends we met and places we've been..always be grateful for the experienced.

[@Edgesofearth]

- Totally! 😇😇

[@6789uiop]

agree

[@markussaar3636]

If a foreigner in their 50's or older. Is it difficult to find work teaching or any other employment in Vietnam? What do you recommend?

[@Edgesofearth]

- I am not sure about all of this specific..😁

[@zibberebbiz]

I can't find anywhere why you had to leave?

[@Edgesofearth]

- My cousin invited me to his wedding. I needed to go back to the USA 🇺🇸

[@jamesl9371]

Vietnam has google maps no ? I would star places on google maps.

[@vladimerputin7911]

Safe travels please don't let society wrap you up again when you are home around all the negative influences. Get back on your way and live your dreams asap. New country maybe next?

[@Edgesofearth]

- Yep. Stay tuned 😇😇

[@grenoble11]

Hope the return flights weren't too bad. Last month when I arrived at the airport to leave Vietnam, I was told my flight was canceled due to a typhoon near Taiwan. I was rebooked on a different airline. When I was about to board they told me that I would miss my connection, and was rebooked on different airline connecting in Korea. I waited at the airport for more than 13 hours, had a layover in Korea for 6 hours, (was assigned a middle seat on the trans-Pacific flight), and got home after 37 hours! I still haven't looked through all my pics or videos and thinking I have a bit of reverse culture shock. Hope you adapt quickly being back in the US and have a strong loving community back home!

[@Edgesofearth]

- Haha crazy story! Yeah, I adapt quick. But, the usa us boring to me. I like to be other places. So, only 3 months were planned..then off again 😎

[@6789uiop]

13 hours layover... just kill me! LOL

[@travelnotesbymaitry9050]

7:20 to 7:44 your hair , OMG 😆🤣

[@Edgesofearth]

- Yawwwp. Crazy stuff. Sortof looks like a rat nest 😅😅

[@circlestar8697]

Where you going next Brock? I'm leaving for Cambodia on November 28th. Love your videos. Was wondering if a 60 year old guy like me would get hired as an english teacher or do they prefer younger people? And how are you holding your go pro? By hand or an extender? I seen you holding on the bike.

[@Edgesofearth]

- I have other videos about this topic, specifically. But generally, they aren't super excited for someone of your age. You can try, however. I just held it with my hand 💪

[@manchesterunitedfan8868]

When will you came back to Cambodia or Asia ? But Have A Nice Trip ! Good Luck Man!

[@Edgesofearth]

- Cambodia? Not anytime in the near future. Asia? Sooner than you might think 😉

[@manchesterunitedfan8868]

Edges Of Earth ok Have A Nice Day

[@nattha6513]

You grown so much!! Subbed when you had 2-3k sub :o

[@Edgesofearth]

- Slowly but surely 😇

[@johnsmith-eq1zc]

What is the brand/model and size of the backpack that you are wearing on your front. I will be heading to Vietnam this year and need to do the same for carryon. Thanks in advance.

[@Edgesofearth]

- Yikes, not sure. I gave it away to buy a new one. It wasn't a camera bag, everything was awkward. I now bought a bag designed to handle a camera and laptop.

[@papisanlove5537]

why did u leave

[@Edgesofearth]

- I had to go to a wedding in the usa.

[@kcgaming4234]

Yeah

[@Edgesofearth]

- Yeah?

[@pmjmiller]

will you please remind us of the name of the rural town you spent the year in?

[@Edgesofearth]

- Hong Ngu

[@jenniferbator909]

@@Edgesofearth that is my cousin hometown. Long an is my mother hometown as well

[@AdrianOlivas_]

I laughed pretty hard at the way you said "...the woman outside who is picking her nose." Nice delivery! Haha!

[@Edgesofearth]

- 😂😆😂😅

[@pacovl46]

It always sucks to leave a place you really like! By the way, your mother looks like your sister! :-)

[@Edgesofearth]

- I knowwwww 😣😣 Haha, she'll be happy to hear that lol

[@silklee6110]

It's hard to say goodbye to you, even if in my thoughts were trying to pretend to be happy( don't cry) and accept your farewell. my feeling was very sad and uncomfortable. I wondered when you would come back here and I also thought "all good things must come to an end" ( proverb). Thanks for all. Well, you're so venturous when you were taking camera (to talk) in saigon. There are many unsafe places and robbers in HCMC. You have to be careful in any city where there are good and bad guys.! Take care.

[@Edgesofearth]

- 😇😇 Many thanks for all of your help and friendship!!

[@silklee6110]

Edges Of Earth 👌👌🤝🤝❤

[@JzMillinery]

Love the melancholy background music in the beginning.

[@jamesl9371]

Why are you leaving Vietnam? When you seem so sad to leave? What happened?

[@neuroscram]

All the best buddy.

[@cedric2827]

OF COURSE YOU´LL COME BACK - ONE TIME " PHO" THEN ALWAYS "PHO"💐💐💐

[@Edgesofearth]

- 😆😆😆😇

[@matthewd48]

Plz come back

[@Edgesofearth]

- 😯

[@thelmacrews3051]

Hey, Brock what happened to your live update from India? It's deleted.

[@Edgesofearth]

- Yep. I didn't want to keep it. ;)

[@thelmacrews3051]

Edges Of Earth Huh okay!

[@geopo5181]

Le Vietnam est ma prochaine destination pour 2019.

[@jamesl9371]

I stayed in half decent 3 star hotels in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city and they arranged drives to and from the airport. And a half decent hotel is safe and comfortable and has wall sockets. Vietnam is not expensive. Why stay in a hostel?

[@ingmonyroth3668]

he stayed at Vietnam for almost a year, I think it was not a wise idea to stay at 3 Stars Hotel the whole time

[@chuongly9290]

where are you from in US?

[@Edgesofearth]

-22 years in Michigan...5 years in Arizona ;)

[@chuongly9290]

AZ is much nicer, when are you going back to VN?

[@Edgesofearth]

- I agree! Haha. No plans. I want to travel to many other countries, 1st 😇😇

[@EatTravelSteve]

I had a coca cola coffee in Sapa. I made a video of me eating Japanese food , in Sapa; and I had a coca cola coffee. I liked it, it wasn't bad at all.

[@Edgesofearth]

- Yuckkkk 😷 Very rare that I dump things out, but I did for that one 😅

[@aldenrmachado]

Why are you leaving and how was the whole experience?

[@Edgesofearth]

- Stay tuned for upcoming videos :)

[@aldenrmachado]

@@Edgesofearth sure Champ

[@benfucrin4217]

I love the coffee coca cola. Lots and lots of caffeine. Drink in moderation.

[@Edgesofearth]

- Hahaha

[@hoangviet1511]

I had gone to pass the the exam and I came back without you *-*

[@Edgesofearth]

- *sigh* yeah. Endings are never fun 😓

[@honestyrocksu]

the title is misleading, I didn't hear any explanation of HAVING to leave, I watched this thinking you had a problem with the gov that we should be aware of.

[@Edgesofearth]

- Definitely not misleading..it appears that you misinterpreted the title. I never said "I had to leave VN because of a government issue.", because, yes, that would have been misleading. I didn't say 'why'. You, for some reason, invented your own why. Not sure why 🤔

[@poopymcfartass1640]

I took it that way too.

[@honestyrocksu]

@@Edgesofearth okay, I confess I'm overly concerned about the title because I click on a lot of BS and I have a "thing" about anything close to clickbait, but your video was fine, I watched it 2x, just not what I expected. The video wasn't about why or anything related to "having" to leave - only about traveling - the leaving seemed totally incidental ( which is cool) so, not complaining, but I still think it's mislabeled. LOL Nice videos man! I'll check out your channel for some more and thanks for replying.

[@sullenday]

@@Edgesofearth dude it says HAD to leave. You know what you did.

[@Edgesofearth]

- Yes, for my friends wedding. The ticket was booked. Did you want me to just skip the flight??

[@hongtuyetpho9967]

In vietnam has a song is " Đi để trở về" . It's mean " go to come back". See you again!

[@6789uiop]

sweet

[@giapvo892]

Tui đi luôn không bao giờ trễ về bởi vì Việt Nam là khu để cho bọn chuột cống nảy nở sinh sống. Thấy rác xả đầy đường là biết rồi. Vietnam is a third world slum.

[@cuongpham6218]

@@giapvo892 Good riddance! Whatever country you are in now must be unfortunate to have to take in the trash which is you from the "third world slum" you described.

[@paulthe2mikolajdupontsrens586]

Wait . You live in Chicago? Yo that’s where I live to

[@Edgesofearth]

- No ;) I only landed there. Another 3 hours car ride. You will see where, soon.

[@paulthe2mikolajdupontsrens586]

Edges Of Earth okay then

[@matthewd48]

Are you in kereia, sorry I can’t spell

[@Edgesofearth]

- No, I started traveling north instead of South :)

[@thelmacrews3051]

Are you still in India?

[@Edgesofearth]

- Yep

[@billco73]

money situation with the bank sounds like China- they don't want to let go of the USD- I did it at the airport

[@6789uiop]

The hostel/hotel has a lift! That would NOT meet code in the US. No rails on the adjacent stairs and the exposed pinch points with the lift right against the stairs. Hope the was a tempered glass barrier I just couldn't see. Or was the that the Darwin Hotel?

[@Edgesofearth]

- Haha, no idea. There are ENDLESS items that are not by US code around Asia. But, I manage ;)

[@jameskirk7673]

As to converting VN currency and wiring it - The law is targeted at illicit/corrupt domestic VN money from turning into USD in the United States. China has the same exact rule - with mixed results. it slows, but does not stop the corrupted funds from turning into USD in America. An unfortunate example of honest people being inconvenienced by institutional corruption. .

[@Edgesofearth]

- Totally. That's How the World works, though. Punish the 99% because the 1% is bad 🤐

[@giangong5245]

nooooooooooooooo you should live in viet nam

[@Edgesofearth]

- I did for more than a year 😆😆

[@giangong5245]

Im in viet nam I have studied at My uc au center

[@giangong5245]

@@Edgesofearth I want you live in viet nam

[@Edgesofearth]

- ❤

[@gremlin1167]

So where to now Brock, maybe you come to Australia, some amazing places here.

[@Edgesofearth]

- Keep your eyes on the upcoming videos ;)

[@FundedFuturesTrader]

No girlfriend left behind?

[@vincenjones4915]

you said u left for merica but then u went to india. where are you. then post more on vietnam. WTF

[@Edgesofearth]

- Yep confusing when I post out of sequence - especially if people only read the titles of the videos. But if people watch the video, all is explained.

[@eugenefernandez4672]

Im American i want a Vietnam wife or a Venezuela wife. I cant decide

[@グレンマサ]

goodbye vietnam😭come to japan.or go back to PH.😂hehehe

[@Edgesofearth]

- 😇😆