29 April 2011 SpiceRoads Cycling Tour – Day 12 Transfer from Danang to Hanoi I can’t remember the last time I saw a flight attendant jump seat in the overwing exit row, but there it is, directly across from me, fixed and rigid and not at all comforting. How old is this plane? Better not …
28 April 2011 SpiceRoads Cycling Tour – Day 11 Around Hoi An (30 Km) Ride from the outskirts of Hoi An to My Son for more temples or go shopping in Hoi An for the day for some inexpensive tailored clothing? The choice seems obvious and yet we feel as though we made the wrong …
27 April 2011 SpiceRoads Cycling Tour – Day 10 Hue to Hoi An (80 Km) Mr. Hau is on the prowl for a fifth wife. Preferably tall, blonde, and American. I think he’s eyed himself a potential candidate in a certain someone we all know and love. But first he’ll need to keep himself out …
26 April 2011 SpiceRoads Cycling Tour – Day 9 Hue (20 Km) I think our tour guide must be kidding as he’s pointing for us to make a left hand turn across a 12 lane intersection that is clogged with hordes of motor scooters and cars and trucks and other bicycles. That or he’s a …
25 April 2011 SpiceRoads Cycling Tour – Day 8 A Luoi to Hue (70 Km) Hills. We like to descend them but we like even more going up them and passing people. People that have been pedaling ahead of us, more often than not waaay ahead of us, for the past seven days of this …
24 April 2011 SpiceRoads Cycling Tour – Day 7 Khe Sanh to A Luoi (70 Km) Yesterday in my cycling despair I asked for a right hand turn. Today, I got what I asked for. After a 14 kilometer descent down a windy, scenic and slightly congested highway, we turned right. Right across a bridge, …
23 April 2011 SpiceRoads Cycling Tour – Day 6 Phong Nha to Khe Sanh (80 Km) I’ve never been very fond of caves; they bring out my claustrophobic fears. Because of this, I have some simple rules for my friends and family: don’t hold me under a blanket, don’t hold me under water, and certainly …
22 April 2011 SpiceRoads Cycling Tour – Day 5 Huong Khe to Phong Nha (80 Km) Here’s something I never expected to know: how it feels to sleep on a dining room table. I didn’t sleep in the dining room, actually, nor on a table per se, but rather upon my bed last night. A …
21 April 2011 SpiceRoads Cycling Tour – Day 4 Vinh to Huong Khe (70 Km) It’s no wonder us Americans are always at war somewhere in the world – we can’t even get along on a bicycle tour. Gina and I like to think of ourselves as being fairly drama-free, but that little illusion fell …
20 April 2011 Spiceroads Cycling Tour – Day 3 Lam Son to Vinh (80 Km) We only have one photo from today, which speaks volumes about what we think of the scenery out here on the Ho Chi Minh Highway: it’s terrible. The tarmac may be smooth as promised in the trip itinerary, but where …