Day 1 in Mai Chau, Vietnam:
Woke up super early. Got in a van for 4 hours to Mai Chau valley. Stopped and had sticky rice inside roasted bamboo in the fog. Checked into my stilt house home stay and rented a mountain bike. Rode to the highway that will be the start of my trek tomorrow, warm up 30 k, had sugarcane juice as my reward. Hugged a little little cow, played with an epic dog and a water bottle, and got high as the sun went down looking at the fields. The family at the home-stay made us a feast..the food just kept on coming. There's a teen party in the dried rice fields across the road, I can't stop listening to Jean Leloup (cursed by a French Canadian)..oh, and today is Sunday♡ Xoxo
Day 2 Mai Chau..rode 100 kilometers..never doing it again.
Started at 8, got back at 1840, took 5 min breaks every 30 minutes and 17 minutes for lunch. Got screamed at to clean before I could eat the little lady's food.
I think I swallowed a half pound of dirt riding..
Listened to Alt-J, Passenger, Milky Chance, Trevor Hall, and Bon Jovi ...not ashamed.
Note: Don't listen to Tribal seeds or Soja when your only vice is a mushed banana and water..Truckers gave me a red Bull and tried to give me Doughnuts..
Saw a horrible scene where a lady killed a dog in a cage, and 40 minutes later saw a lady dog catcher- I told everyone around the intersection she had no heart with arm symbols. .
Saw the red teeth lady from my postcard (see pic) and almost crashed.
Started seeing things by hour 8...
I saw a box of Miller Light on the back of someone's scooter. Thought that the mud water was a street and almost rode right into it..
Got to the home-stay in the pitch dark...collapsed on the pavement..had to brace to stand up in the shower.
Had my first conversation with a person at 7pm.
Please work IB Profin.
Not sure if this was in correct order, even my mind is exhausted.
Xoxo Brooke
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