{"id":12244,"date":"2014-02-12T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12244"},"modified":"2014-02-12T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T13:07:27","slug":"se-asia-bike-tour-day-5-vinh-to-ky-anh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12244","title":{"rendered":"SE Asia bike tour Day 5 &#8211; Vinh to Ky Anh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>First thank you to the 68 folks who have signed up for my blatherings, yesterday I had 158 views although Scarpa might not be to happy that \u00a0my <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2012\/05\/24\/40-days-of-wear-on-scarpa-hiking-boots\/\">40 days of wear post <\/a>is still \u00a0gaining lots of views per day<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well I finally managed to warm up in my lovely silk sleeping bag inner from my China visit \ud83d\ude42 and get a good nights sleep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-IMG_9455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12246\" alt=\"1-IMG_9455\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-IMG_9455-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Today was a rain rest day, cloudy &amp; overcast with many puddles but no wet from the sky. I decided to miss Highway 1 and using Gaia &amp; Open Street Map I found a gorgeous route following the coast on totally traffic free roads with delightful villages full of friendly folks. The Water buffalo is still in extensive use both for ploughing and as a general run about with a cart attached. In fact I saw no motors in the fields at all. Stopping at a market in Cuong Gian I was reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searls.com\/\">Doc Searls <\/a>famous quote &#8220;markets are conversations&#8221; as I was immediately swamped with onlookers babbling away \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-IMG_8040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12247\" alt=\"1-IMG_8040\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-IMG_8040-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I stopped for lunch in Ha Tinh, a prosperous little town. Mt new found skill of pointing to the things I like hit a major downside as the guy obviously thought I wanted it all! My, what a spread it was too, totally delicious &amp; it only came to \u00a33 \ud83d\ude42 Everyone was so friendly so a delightful experience. I must say my stomach thoroughly approves of the food here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-IMG_9475.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12248\" alt=\"1-IMG_9475\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1-IMG_9475-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The afternoon was spent down Highway 1 it&#8217;s in better shape on this stretch &amp; quite enjoyable at times. Especially seeing the bane of my travels, the red buses, having to negotiate around a herd of cows who wandered on the road without a care in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I called it a day in Ky Anh when I saw THe Ngoal Thoong Hotel especially when the receptionist could speak decent English!<\/p>\n<p>Today was 69 miles ( Strava &#8211; includes some walking around town). Here is the stats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12245\" alt=\"Vinh_to_Ky_Anh___Strava_Ride\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Vinh_to_Ky_Anh___Strava_Ride.jpg\" width=\"544\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Vinh_to_Ky_Anh___Strava_Ride.jpg 544w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Vinh_to_Ky_Anh___Strava_Ride-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/>and the pics of the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/+GeoffJones47\/albums\/5979476292440944801\">day are here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First thank you to the 68 folks who have signed up for my blatherings, yesterday I had 158 views although Scarpa might not be to happy that \u00a0my 40 days of wear post is still \u00a0gaining lots of views per day Well I finally managed to warm up in my lovely silk sleeping bag inner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}