Here are some pics of my current route to work. North up Đường Nguyễn Trãi for about 10-15 mins, depending on how leisurely i like to take it. The bike lane tends not to be so busy as compared to the actual road, usually just a scattering of ladies burdened with large potentially smelly fruit (eg. durian as per the pic) or school kids and the rare species of helmet wearing overgrown Vietnamese Australian.








Today was actually quite a light traffic day, the bikes were only banked up about 10 deep. After these generally leisurely 15 minutes i make a right turn onto dreaded Đường Trường Chinh (pictured below).










A couple weeks ago i spent about 2 hours on this road to travel about 1.5 km, i was at least grateful that it didn’t rain and my organs were behaving. I was also grateful for the old guy that told me off, something along the lines of “you helmet wearing cycling sissy, get your arse on the footpath”. So i stared him in the eye, which i’m sure subdued him, grabbed my “pretty lady” and made for what turned out to be a much faster path along the blurred distinction between footpath, road and shop front.
What a riveting post, stay tuned for Long takes an elevator…

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While i’m completely off the Vietnam topic, i’d like to introduce you to Paul Potts if you are not yet one of the 10s of millions of people already acquainted with him. I hope he never finds his self-confidence, i like him without it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA