On Friday night Jen, Kris, and I decided to head to a bar Vascos with our new friend Alex. We’d hoped since there were four of us, we could hop in a taxi and just head on over. The worst possible time to ever think you can hail a cab comes around soccer celebration time. We attempted to hail about 20 cabs in the street, only to be completely ignored. Then we actually managed to hop into three more cabs, only to be refused because “motorbike too crazy”. When we decided to say “screw it” and walk instead, even walking became an extremely tedious task.

So, as a courtesy note to any tourist in Ho Chi Minh City, never, and I mean never, make plans on soccer night that extend beyond a 30 ft radius. If you do, plan for arrival an hour and a half later.