Andrew X. Pham is a sublimely talented and peripatetic writer, foodie enthusiast, engineer: a DOER. Amongst a million other successes, he is also the author of the multi-award winning book Catfish and Mandala: A Two-wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam which tells his extraodinary tale of travelling up the western coast of the United States and then onto the full length of Vietnam, alone, by bicycle.