“Get your shit together, we’re heading to the mountain” says David. “It’s clear, we’re leaving at 2:00 PM with or without without you guys”. I look at the mountain off in the distance and see that things have cleared up significantly. “OK” I say, hanging up the phone. It’s 1:50 […]
We keep riding after the failed robbery, deciding to spend the night in the next decent town. Mu Cang Chai it is. The ride up is breathtaking. So many cows drinking from streams and eating grass on the side of the peaceful highway. There’s few cars, we have the road to […]
We set off from Mu Cang Chai early, grabbing a coffee for the road at the same place we drank beer with the locals. It was bang-on delicious. We stop at the mechanic for an hour while they fix up Kevin’s bike. He needs a new rim for his tire […]
22:11 – 11/5/2016 – 1984 Tattoo Shop – Hanoi. David is getting a tattoo on his ass right now. It’s me, David, Laura, Andrew, and Kevin left in Hanoi as the sole survivors of the Bacon Ninja Cats crew. The crew is dissolving in the ether of travel, like sugar […]
I knew things were off. I had a bad feeling about this from the moment we set foot in that cafe. Now we’ve been taken down the road to a dusty restaurant by this weird Vietnamese guy in an orange jacket. We’ve bandaged Andreas up. He crashed his motorbike in […]
My armpits smell. I’m wearing a sweaty Koh Rong pub crawl tank top right now, and my blue Nike athletic shorts. We’ve made it only 30 kilometers out of Hanoi–I normally drive further than that to get IN-N-OUT Burger. Technically, we’re still in the Hanoi metro. After such a long […]
“My bike is gone” I text the boys. I spent the last 20 minutes walking up and down the crowded parking garage with an old Vietnamese man, unable to locate the bike with a license plate ending in 0987. No one spoke English, but eventually they kept showing me a […]
Seat 18D. Bangkok Airways Flight 262 with service to BKK. So it’s my birthday, and I’m sitting here wondering if my eardrum is going to explode once we get up to 40,000 feet. I’m a little nervous to fly after receiving barotrauma to the middle ear and being advised by […]