Riding motorcycles is one of the best means of travel
invented. Bicycling allows you to
enjoying the sights, sounds, smells, smiles, potholes. Now add little motor to that baby and you’re
rocketing through the open road on hyperdrive.
Not to mention you look like a badass when you're on two wheels.
However, when you picture yourself scooting down a nice
curvy road on any two wheeled mode of transportation I will wager a bet that
your backdrop includes a nice sunny day.
Not the shitty weather we endured on our trek south through Vietnam.
When we first arrive in Hanoi the weather was moderate. Sunshine filled days were soon replaced by
intermittent showers. These preluded the overcast dark days and pouring
rain. Luckily we were prepared with
ponchos and covering for our bags, however the weather really started to wear
us down. Long distance touring is not
fun when your feet are wet, your fingers are icicles, and your vision is blurry at best. Making it worse, was the fact that all these
symptoms occurred at the first 2-3 hours of an 8 hour day of riding.
We spent a few days waiting out a storm in Hoi An, a small
little town marking the midway point through Vietnam. Our plan was to head back up north to Danang
where we would load our bikes up on the train and head south to Nha Trang to
try and split up the ride down Vietnam. However when we got to the train
station a quick decision was made to push past Nha Trang and head straight to
Saigon on an overnight train. I think
this was the breaking point for us in our foul weather riding. We were fed up with the last couple weeks of
riding through storms. I think we had a
total of only 3 days where the weather held out and stayed clear for us. The cheap ticket price and the sunny southern
forecast for the further destination also enticed us in the decision.
South to Saigon we went!
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