BSV. Quang Ngai

Feb 9. Evening

A day of bookends and real contrasts.

First the bookends.

Leaving the hotel on small rural beautiful roads. About 20km of scenic and almost traffic free riding. Then 100km of Hiway 1 riding. Noisy, more noisy, more noisy with big trucks and even bigger horns, contantly blaring. Nothing really charming. Bad air from all the diesel.

Then at the end of the day 12 km of even better riding than the morning.

Long day ending at a dump of a 'beach resort'. Many mosquitoes on the room. Clean by non-beach standards. I showered as best as I could and thén put on all my Permitrian clothing and some deet. Will sleep this way.

Outside is a perfectly respectable beach. As we are leaving early in the am unlikely I will have time for a swim. Very hard putting on my right sock so I probably would pass anyway so as not to take it off and have suffer with each yank.

The hotel would rate a half star on the Boog Scale.

On the rural roads saw lots of livestock (cows, chickens, goats) crossing the road at their convenience. Hiway was not a good time for pictures.

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