It is hitting me more and more that I know so little about the countries we will visit. I'm trying to read a book that somehow deals with every country. My first book was "Catfish and Mandala" by Andrew Pham. It deals with a bicycle tour through Vietnam by the author who left Vietnam as a child and returned. I'm now reading "A Traveller's History of South Africa" by David Mason. South Africa has quite an amazing history.