A final goodbye to Vietnam

Our last day in Vietnam ended on a note like the previous few...a little bit of frustration, a little bit of rain, and some eagerness to get to Laos. We were anticipating leaving the cold weather behind and reaching sunshine (which I will jump ahead here and say that it turned sunny and warm almost EXACTLY on the Laos/Vietnam border line). We spent our last night in a Vietnamese border town and met Veronika, a girl our age who is in her 28th month of cycling from Europe to Asia...lots of stories to share and we had a great dinner with her! Also lucky enough to spend a couple days biking with her, but more on that in the Laos post.

Something I've learned about my very practical, very engineering kind of husband is he's surprisingly superstitious. Or at least, he would say I just bring on bad things...which might be true as we've had multiple occasions proving this theory.
1) I say, "No, no, we haven't been sick at all. Eating everything and no problems what so ever!" We both wake up puking.
2) I say, "Man, this is glorious weather." It starts raining the next day.
3) In this instance I say, "This is the best biking we've had in days." With no word of a lie, Cameron's tire immediately bursts (no slow deflation here) and we're side lined for an hour.

In the sides of this picture, there is an additional five or six people. And if this picture was taken ten minutes later, there would be about a dozen people huddled behind Cameron, with more spilling to the sides. They are laughing, yelling, pointing and honking, and doing all kinds of things that make it frustrating to change a tire. Oh ya, and don't forget the smoke blowing out of Cam's ears.

Some bystanders wanting to take advantage of a photo opt while the tire changing was occuring. Funnily enough they wanted many pictures taken, but have no email that we can send them to.

Yum...one last Vietamese baked good!