Day 23 15/11/2009
Distance Cycled: 150km
My ‘early’ morning start wasn’t very early at all, I didn’t leave the hotel till 9 after eating some sugared up Banana pancakes. The weather wasn’t so good, it was drizzling on and off all day, I suppose it beats the heat of the summer sun but it would have been nice to get my camera out at times to do a few panoramics without the images looking all washed out.
Oh, just after leaving the city limits if Ninh Bihn a truck almost run me off the road… it was unbelievably close… Im beginning to wonder whether I make it to the south alive?
4 things I am now sick of: People Staring excessively, kids shouting hello over and over… don’t get me wrong at first it was cute but now I just ignore them… speaking of which I have just discovered that I can put my headphones over my helmet, turn the iPod on max and it masks out most of the noises apart from the truck horns which incidentally is the 3rd thing I’m sick of whist cycling. And the last is Hwy 1, its fucking boring…. There really inst much in terms of sight seeing and it’s generally flat… Hopefully that will change when I get closer to the coast.
I managed to get a free lift today with a unsuspecting truck driver for about a kilometer before he saw me in his side mirror holding onto a piece of rope flailing around the back of his truck.
Its also now official, this bike has now outlasted my previous one… hopefully it gets me to HCMC… fingers crossed.
One problem that I am having is my right leg, that tendon between the heel and the back of my leg isn’t doing too well, its just occasionally that its so painful I have to rub it better but thankfully a woman at a Xe May somewhere down the track gave me some tiger balm equivalent to rub on it.
After cycling past the 400km road tombstone (suitable name) I found a truck stop and I asked whether I could pitch my tent, they tried to sell me a room for the night but as it turned out the teenage boy didn’t want to share his room with me so I set up my tent, joined the three siblings that actually ran the truck stop for dinner which was delicious, showed them some pics of my family and some photoshop work that I have put together and crashed out for the night. Its weird that when I show Vietnamese people my talents with photoshop they don’t seem to be impressed… they just kinda agree with it... meh.
Definitely having an early start tomorrow.
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