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| A truck load of dogs of to the meat market. |
Sometimes no matter how hard you try, things just don’t go
according to plan. I’m really happy with how I’m cycling and I was thinking
that all I have to do is loose some weight and everything will be perfect.
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| Harvesting the rice by hand. |
I must have eaten or drunk something that Niel didn’t, and I
got the dreaded travellers’ diarrhoea. After some antibiotics and anti – diarrhoea,
I felt better, but lost my appetite, and couldn’t stomach any unfamiliar food.
Next day, all was going well, we had made it to our destination in good time
and we were looking for a hotel. Niel said don’t stop at this one, so I rode slowly
by, when I turned around he is nowhere to be seen. I wait about 5 or 10 mins,
and head back to the hotel I last saw him, where he told me not to stop.
Meanwhile he had given up waiting for me and ridden on as he thought I had gone
on without him. We didn’t see each other as we passed on opposite sides of the
road. I waited 3 hours for him to come
back to the “last place we saw each other” (our golden rule), He went 30 kms on
to the next town, realised I could be anywhere and came back the 30 kms back to
the place where we last saw each other. He was livid, that I hadn’t looked back
to check he was behind me, so it was all my fault, what do you think. The next day, it rained all day, very heavy at
times, and a few kilometres before our destination, after a day of rain, we
were bumping along a very rough road, full of pot holes. You couldn’t see how
deep the holes were, and I hit a very deep one, I went over the handle bars. I
hurt my knee, right on the spot where I had had key hole surgery a few months ago,
and fainted. So there I was sitting on the gravel and mud in the pouring rain
with my head between my knees trying to remain conscious, while Niel fixed my
bike. Thank god the next day – nothing untoward happened.
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| Me with my bloody knee. |
On the plus side, we have completed our first 1,000 kms, and
we are half way through Vietnam. We have also reached the touristy part of the
country, so there is more people that speak English, and more Hotels.
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| At the top of our biggest hill so far looking down to Da Nang. |
Tonight we are in a 5 star hotel and in the lap of luxury.
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