more Mekong

our tour companions are Mary from Minnesooooota and Lynn from Melbourne. Each on their second marriage with grown kids, they met on a trip over ten years ago and have been traveling together ever since. They are very funny, wise and seasoned travelers but you would not guess looking at them. Game for anything, and hop in the support van when they have had enough. They have been great company.

Mekong

Toughening up the backsides! Onto day 3 of cycling trip in the Mekong Delta. We are loving it!

Sweaty and smelly!

We are on our second night in the Mekong Delta. We stayed last night in a still house on an island. It was incredibly peaceful and beautiful. There is water everywhere - and every means of water transport ever invented, including giant tankers and long, thin paddle boats carrying loads of fish and vegetables to market.

We biked today on dirt paths and narrow roads along the canals. It is way more populated than I thought it would be - farms and stilt houses and market line every canal and dirt path. We have one more full day of biking, then back to Hanoi for the next - and last - adventure.

Write back - we miss you!

Siagon

Had to work thru logistics this am. Leaving for a 4 day biking tour on the Mekong in the am, we are psyched!!!! Thinking of Robin when I saw a big rat in the sewer and enormous cockroach on the same corner crossing on the way to airline office - where we we able to change our flight back to Hanoi for nothing more than the difference in ticket cost, how nice. Touring Siagon today, I feel like a 25 yr smoker after walking around in this city just one afternoon. More later.

Siem Reap final pictures

Biked past slums with kids fishing in the filthy river. The smell and sight awful. Explored a temple area with far less restoration than the day prior, made offering for safe decent of frighteningly steep, narrow stone steps, amazed to find ourselves alone at one site not more than a mile off the standard temple loop, the lonely bike shot. While the temples are amazing, enough of Siem Reap. Siagon is crazy, motorbike madness,
more to come

Good morning, Vermont!

We are back in Vietnam - Saigon this time. The city is giant, sprawling and noisy. It is a crazy combination of high tech, stores selling $1,000 crocodile bags, sidewalk vendors and backpackers. We have decided to stay here two nights and will see some museums and the tunnels that the Viet Cong used during the Vietnam War.

Friday, we are heading off for a three day bike trip through the Mekong Delta.

Miss you all!

angkor

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