Usually I travel solo, or with a very small group. In July I crossed another few bucket list locations off my list: Sapa, Vietnam and Halong Bay. And I did so by joining a group of friends on their family vacation to Northern Vietnam. Now don’t let those two words, “family vacation,” conjure visions drinking wine while watching kiddos (though we did,) hours of playing in the pool (this happened too,) and hundreds of repetitions of “Let It Go.” (Alas, this also happened.) No, we were trekking through rice fields and mountains in Sapa, cruising Halong Bay, and completed a
