Cool air rushes to greet us like a friend a little too exuberant backed by passive ambient music in this embrace that welcomes us in so eagerly from the humid heat of a Vietnam day. In the tourist mecca that is Nha Trang the window to everyday Vietnamese life that was yesterday is easy enough […]
After the stern talking to yesterday Greg is finally behaving like a man befitting my substantial repute and Rob has continued his good form from the lovers tiff just out of Mui Ne. I don’t want to jinx the good fortune but just possibly there’s to be four of us all getting along again as […]
The love affairs continue, it’s back on the bikes and off into the countryside and onto the open road to search out what having our own bikes has to offer, freedom from timetables, schedules and bus routes. With two English guys, Sam and Milo, we charge further into the mountains sweeping on the black ribbon […]
Yesterdays first little jaunt into Dalat promised so much, had us so excited for the place we’re about to get into, taste and see. Waking to bleary eyes and no great abundance of energy it’s time to see if it was all just a rose coloured ruse or if Dalat is the beautiful food laden […]
So distant now is the punishing slog of our first leg on this road trip, getting lost, bad roads, baking sun and sore bums seem a more distant memory than just two days ago. A shimmering ocean flanks our right side in this adventure north, cows graze on a beach and sandy soil even more […]
There’s salt in the air again, we can smell it. The seaside town of Mui Ne is a mark on the map for many travellers for beach time, sunshine and flash bars; for us though the primary function of this seaside oasis has nothing to do with sun or sand and everything to do with […]
Wind whistles past us as our bikes splutter and misfire through the busy streets of Ho Chi Minh and onto the offramp and into the tunnel that will spit us out of this big friendly city. There’s a deluded optimism that fends off the unending list of reasons not to do this in favour of […]
There’s plenty of different modes of travel in the world and on this trip we’ve had a good crack at sampling every possibly one of them, including the all time romantic favourite, the road trip. We reminisce of the three week mud dash that was Botswana; fending off Hyenas, cowering in the tent from Elephants […]
What’s this whole business about a ‘coffee buzz’ I hear? Can’t get to sleep, makes me shaky, I’m buzzing; all common catch cries for the caffeine light weight. I want a buzz too, where’s my buzz? Maybe we’re a just tougher or possibly we’re simply pre-enlightened addicts, but for whatever reason coffee remains for us […]
We want you! In the 50’s we hadn’t all seen those words before, emblazoned over the image of the man in a top hat looking half applaudingly and half accusingly with a finger pointing off the poster right at you. Apparently he wants you. Red white and blue adorns the iconic backdrop as he calls […]
Charlie and Steve's Excellent Adventure 