Dakota Gale

Writer's Biography

Dakota Gale lives in Portland, Oregon after a recent year of travel around the globe. He enjoys physical activity ranging from rock climbing and running to biking, yoga or Frisbee. Not entirely a jock, his free time allows him to indulge in amateur photography, play guitar, laugh at nonsense or run rampant with his girlfriend's twin black cats, even Chester and his pink collar. Dakota owns a car but doesn't drive it, prefers organic food to KFC and rarely stays awake past midnight unless enjoying another delightful night bus ride.

This is his first published work, but all of Dakota's writing (and many unflattering pictures) from the last year can be found at dakiar.travellerspoint.com.

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Hue, Vietnam: The New Nam: A young American's view (however skewed) of Vietnam
- Story by Dakota Gale
- 6th Online Issue

A thrill-seeking Vietnamese sprite on the back of my rusty one-speed bike clings to the rack and squeals gleefully as we roar down the pot-holed road. My friend Eric parks his bike and sings a Red Hot Chili Peppers' song to three young Vietnamese girls while they laugh uncontrollably at the funny white guy with sweat stains on his back; even with the monsoons, seething temperatures turn all travelers into fountains. The full moon is suspended in the sky over Hue and illuminates dozens of houseboats lined up on the river. I can see the flicker of TVs aglow, families relaxing after a day in the fields - a woman rocks her baby in a makeshift hammock, a hypnotic motion.

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