In November of 2006 I left my country for the first time. Wait, rewind. Two months earlier, I was a staff photographer for the California-based newspaper, The Sacramento Bee. I was attending a one-hour seminar about something that I have completely forgotten about. But as I was leaving I overheard a coworker that I barely knew talking about a trip he will be taking to the Philippines to visit his mother and he was even thinking about hitting up Vietnam. I walked up to him and said, “I’m going with you!” He looked stunned for a moment, shrugged his shoulders and said, “ok”. That “Ok” sealed a brotherly bond that I would shared with Bobby ever since.
