Wanderlust

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | daily

brandon “Do you think we need a visa?” my husband asked minutes after I booked and paid for a Spring Break trip to Vietnam. And yes, we do. We’d been thinking a long time about where to go and it was as we were enjoying the sensual pleasures of Long Provincial restaurant on Second and Stewart that it hit us. Vietnam! So we applied and when I discovered this morning that someone from Ho Chi Minh City had spent 4 1/2 minutes reading Fraternity Kitchen, I realized that this satirical blog could be standing in the way of me and my visa to a fabulous exotic food-centric wonderland. “Do they understand it’s a JOKE!” I lamented to Brandon, who assured me I was way over-thinking this. “You’re not political,” Kirk told me flatly when I related the story to him, and then went on to tell me he’s never been anywhere outside the country. ”Not even Mexico or Canada?” I asked, incredulous. ”Well, Canada,” he granted as if that wasn’t foreign, which just confirms every Canadian’s fear.