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BSV. HCMC. Tet

nobody@vox.com(Boog) — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:41:05 -0800

18 February. Late afternoon This will be the last post of the BSV series. There will be a short update, in the future, when I get the camera pictures up and collect the photos from my fellow adventurers. If this were not a real holiday it would ...

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BSV. HCMC

nobody@vox.com(Boog) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:13:32 -0800

Feb 16 Midnight plus a bit so really the 17th. New Year's Eve - Tet Looking out my window on the Dong Hong one sees the multiude. No free space for humans or motorbikes. Just masses and joy. Horns, ballons, cheering, talking. But, as usual I get ...

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BSV. Dalat

nobody@vox.com(Boog) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:04:47 -0800

14 February early am at breakfast Dalat is an old French Colonial resort area at 1500 m. Being up high it is a lot cooler, 20-22 C is the common daytime temp. No A/C in the room - heater and fireplace instead. The resort reminds one of Ventana i...

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BSV. Dalat to Phan Thiet

nobody@vox.com(Boog) — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:28:19 -0800

15 Feb. Evening after dinner A day of biking extremes. We spent one day in Dahlat (see previous post) visiting the Mediation center and a village and other tourist things. Took the evening off in terms of dinner; blashphemy but as Nobue says "m...

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BSV. Nha Trang Notes

nobody@vox.com(Boog) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:12:02 -0800

12 February. A rest and tourist day in this old French resort town. Wonderful food in this 5 star hotel - one of the best in Asia according to them. Two pics, one from outside my room and one of some of the tour riders eating breakfast. Some o...

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BSV. Quang Ngai and Qui Nhon from Nha Trang

nobody@vox.com(Boog) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:43:16 -0800

11 February 22:30 An eventful and challenging few days; catching up after having no connectivity for three or four days. The ride to Quang Ngai a beach resort in a remote area held little in the way of new items. Mostly a very noisy, even more n...

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BSV. Quang Ngai

nobody@vox.com(Boog) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:04:00 -0800

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 bi...

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BSV. My Son

nobody@vox.com(Boog) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:58:45 -0800

8 February 17:00 Still no connectivity. Excellent day, just about perfect. Weather was again sunny, not too hot, and no strong headwind. Off on rural roads, once we got off Hiway 1 (just the first 20 km). Then perfect roads both in quality, vie...

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BSV. Hoi An

nobody@vox.com(Boog) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:57:43 -0800

7 February morning. Will be sent later as no connectivity here. Arrived last evening at about 18:00. Long day of cycling that had everything. Headwinds, a mountain pass of 1500 feet, distance (65-70 miles), wonderful scenery and outstanding vie...

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BSV. Hué area

nobody@vox.com(Boog) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:40:24 -0800

5 February. Evening before and after dinner Another perfect weather day, a little warmer but plésant compared to the Mekong. A day of boat and biking. Both on the Perfume River, a river so named as about 100 km upstream there are romantic mounta...

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