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301. Tan Ha to Phong Nha, Vietnam

Writer: AlanaAlana

2.10.2025

Distance: 46.28

Total: 12,196.85 mi., 19,624.73 km.

Thus begins my last week in Asia before flying on to Australia: Chatting with a rooster behind a gas station bathroom:

I think I've been in the rain and headwinds too long. The next time I endeavor to ride more than a thousand miles into a prevailining wind, please just shoot me.


But every time I start to feel sorry for myself, I just look at the nearest rice paddy and see all manner of people, men and women, young and old, in their conical hats and plastic ponchos, just working away like the sky isn't emptying its bowels upon us.


You're never alone in Vietnam. And someone is always working much harder than you.

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