We only spent two nights in Hanoi—though we’ll likely pass back through early next week—so we didn’t do a whole lot there. Here is a quick rundown. We flew to Hanoi from Saigon on a clearly Russian plane than touched the Hanoi tarmac at about 3 p.m. We hopped in a car that or hotel sent to pick us up, and we sped along a long, smoggy highway listening to a mix of smooth jazz and techno. For reasons we have yet been able to articulate, we quickly liked the feeling of Hanoi better than  ...