Day 41 3/12/2009
Distance Cycled: ~200km
Times asked to Marry (Total): 10
Repair costs: 126,000 VND
I had pretty good nights rest on the side of Hwy 1, I awoke every now and again to hear passing semis honking their horns probably aimlessly. I quickly packed my stuff as that tomboyish girl creeped me out by constantly saying mo-ney and picking up my stuff gesturing that she was going to take something. I quickly got out of there by 5.45 and started cycling towards Qui Nhon.
I got 75 km when one of the sprockets on the derailleur popped off making my bike uncycleable. Luckily I wasn’t too far away from the closest town… I had to walk 3 km in the wrong direction to this guy in a bike shop who was quite brutal with a hammer with another bike as I entered. Thankfully he had a sprocket and only took 5 minutes to install and only cost 6000VND Bargain!
I managed to finish listening to the Hobbit on audiobook, which was awesome; I may start the Lord of the Rings trilogy tomorrow.
One of the places I stopped at for food gave me a massive rice dish and offered me 2 girls to marry, either one or the other but not both at the same time which I gestured jokingly, the father wasn’t too impressed . Lol.
The last 65km towards Qui Nhon was painful because my bike kept on slipping gears.
When I arrived exhausted I went in search of the hotel with dorms for 50,000 VND. I managed to find it but was a little bit disappointed that I was the only westerner there. The woman working at the desk was more than friendly and helped me find a bike repair man who replaced the chain and other sprocket for 120,000 VND very expensive. When I went to pick up the bike the chain was the wrong size making the slipping 10 times worse than before. He didn’t understand the fact that all I needed was a working bicycle and started raising his voice in disapproval. After some debate neither of us could understand we took my bike to the hotel where the receptionist could translate the argument and made a deal to clean up the previous chain and use that instead for the same price.
I honestly should have fixed it myself if I knew it was going to costs so much and be such a hassle.
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