Another excellent day of cycling in Vietnam. We left the luxury of our resort at 7 am. Third day in a row of early starts. As you can imagine, the goal is to get an early start to beat the heat.
Today we got to take a dip in the Vietnamese sea at our second break for the day. I needed some refreshment badly because I had a flat and after repairing the tire the young mechanic insisted on letting me draft him to catch the rest of group. He had me going 22 mph on a mountain bike, which is pretty quick.
Today was 35 miles and over 2000 feet of climbing. Not insignificant in a 106 degree heat index.
Here is the route and statistics:
Julie did not cause any international incidents on the road today. The rest of the story yesterday was that the gentleman emerged from the shop where he crashed smiling and waving. No one knows what he was carrying on his motor bike, but it was described as sounding like pots and pans falling.
After cycling and a nice lunch, we are currently on the bus to Dalat. It is 3 hour journey and is known as a mountain area where the French colonials escaped to during the summer before their defeat in 1954. The altitude is 5000' and much cooler than sea level. We are expecting to wake up to temperatures less than 60 degrees.
We took the bus up the mountain. Tomorrow we have a long ride down to sea level.
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| How do you like that Lobster..... Fresh off the boat! |
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| One Type of boat used by the boat people to leave the country in late 1970's and 1980's. Note the propeller. |
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| Fishing boats in the bay |
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| View from our hotel room tonight. You can see the french influence in the town including the eiffel tower. |
I'm continuing to enjoy your daily updates, thank you! What an amazing journey:)
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