Round the world on board
Day 69: Country Road, Take me home
Vietnam: Mui Ne to Vinh Tan
Distance : 89.5 km
Time on board : 5 hour 55
Average speed : 15.1 km/h
Ascent : 479m Descent : 447m
Cumulative distance : 3075.9 km
Country roads, take me home
To the place where I belong:
West Virginia, mountain momma,
Take me home, country roads.
This song by John Denver resonate in my mind, I keep singing it when I am skating long stretch of rolling hills, roads with ocean and mountain view. Road of emptiness, just me and country road. Singapore is still home where my family and friends are, but the country roads is where my heart belongs to.
Today skate one of the most gorgeous stretch of road from Mui ne. Happen to pass by fishing market where hordes of bowl shaped boats on the coastline fished and gathered on the shore to sell their fishes.
Passing desert - like sand dunes, south China sea on my left. Mountains in front. Even the uphill doesn't terrify me anymore. With view like this, I just calmly skate up the hill with stead. Everyday is a beautiful day cos I am still breathing. Tomorrow I might lose my money and whatever. But as long you have your family and friends, everyday is still a wonderful day. Go to bed and when you wake up in the morning, that is an awesome day already.
Been skating through desert-like roads with ocean view without any signs of towns, I continue pushing paddling for 30 km without any breaks until I spotted sugar cane stall. Then another 20 odd km of nothingness. Just the country road and me, and traffic of course. Until I finally arrived at a town for lunch.
Lunch place is also a stop for buses traveling from Saigon to Hanoi. They have sleeping bus where your seat is a bed. Traveling from Saigon to Hanoi takes more than a day on bus. That is how far I am going to skate. Therefore, my lunch place is too noisy to take my routine lunch nap. I continued skating on, enduring the 1pm sun. Coupled with hills, it drain my energy. The uphill seem never ending, when you are done, hill keep on appearing. I passed by an empty shack and took my nap. The nap energies me again.
Without any breaks, I got to Vinh Tan. Since guesthouse are really cheap here, 5 USD on average for fan room. It is really pointless to camp here. The guesthouse I asked quoted me 120,000 dong. But it is still early, hence I went to look around to see any cheaper guesthouse. Apparently, either the rest only have air conditioning room, which cost way more or they charge too much for a fan room. I decided to go back to first guesthouse that I looked. The lady appeared pissed and want to charge me 180,000 dong, increase of 60,000 dong. Well,i can choose to camp, saving my budget but instead, I also want to contribute to local economy. Since the Vietnamese want to do business this way, I didn't want to support them then. I love camping on my hammock. Hence I decided to camp, packed some banh mi, Vietnam sandwich and ready to move. Happened to find another guesthouse. At first, they quoted me 150,000 dong but read the Vietnamese translated sign on my backpack that I am skating around the world, in Vietnam now. They offered me 120,000 dong, the price I was willing to pay. Therefore, no camping. Maybe tomorrow I will Camp, as I can't find any guesthouse in Cam Rang on google map.
Day 69: Country Road, Take me home
Vietnam: Mui Ne to Vinh Tan
Distance : 89.5 km
Time on board : 5 hour 55
Average speed : 15.1 km/h
Ascent : 479m Descent : 447m
Cumulative distance : 3075.9 km
Country roads, take me home
To the place where I belong:
West Virginia, mountain momma,
Take me home, country roads.
This song by John Denver resonate in my mind, I keep singing it when I am skating long stretch of rolling hills, roads with ocean and mountain view. Road of emptiness, just me and country road. Singapore is still home where my family and friends are, but the country roads is where my heart belongs to.
Today skate one of the most gorgeous stretch of road from Mui ne. Happen to pass by fishing market where hordes of bowl shaped boats on the coastline fished and gathered on the shore to sell their fishes.
Passing desert - like sand dunes, south China sea on my left. Mountains in front. Even the uphill doesn't terrify me anymore. With view like this, I just calmly skate up the hill with stead. Everyday is a beautiful day cos I am still breathing. Tomorrow I might lose my money and whatever. But as long you have your family and friends, everyday is still a wonderful day. Go to bed and when you wake up in the morning, that is an awesome day already.
Been skating through desert-like roads with ocean view without any signs of towns, I continue pushing paddling for 30 km without any breaks until I spotted sugar cane stall. Then another 20 odd km of nothingness. Just the country road and me, and traffic of course. Until I finally arrived at a town for lunch.
Lunch place is also a stop for buses traveling from Saigon to Hanoi. They have sleeping bus where your seat is a bed. Traveling from Saigon to Hanoi takes more than a day on bus. That is how far I am going to skate. Therefore, my lunch place is too noisy to take my routine lunch nap. I continued skating on, enduring the 1pm sun. Coupled with hills, it drain my energy. The uphill seem never ending, when you are done, hill keep on appearing. I passed by an empty shack and took my nap. The nap energies me again.
Without any breaks, I got to Vinh Tan. Since guesthouse are really cheap here, 5 USD on average for fan room. It is really pointless to camp here. The guesthouse I asked quoted me 120,000 dong. But it is still early, hence I went to look around to see any cheaper guesthouse. Apparently, either the rest only have air conditioning room, which cost way more or they charge too much for a fan room. I decided to go back to first guesthouse that I looked. The lady appeared pissed and want to charge me 180,000 dong, increase of 60,000 dong. Well,i can choose to camp, saving my budget but instead, I also want to contribute to local economy. Since the Vietnamese want to do business this way, I didn't want to support them then. I love camping on my hammock. Hence I decided to camp, packed some banh mi, Vietnam sandwich and ready to move. Happened to find another guesthouse. At first, they quoted me 150,000 dong but read the Vietnamese translated sign on my backpack that I am skating around the world, in Vietnam now. They offered me 120,000 dong, the price I was willing to pay. Therefore, no camping. Maybe tomorrow I will Camp, as I can't find any guesthouse in Cam Rang on google map.
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