Living the Dream
I'm in Saigon now. I walked through the city yesterday to sign up for my 1 month intensive language course and I had that great feeling where things just feel right, a challenge coming up, a new and exciting environment, life as it should be. It was total chaos at the University for signing up, lots of very polite young people looked after me, as did the bemused Franciscan monks when I mistook their Seminary for the University. I spent the last week in Phan Rang with Conrad, working at his office and cycling. I'm working up to a 90km mountain ride to Da Lat, but I need to get used to the heat and distance first. Found a sweet little 40km loop along the coast and then through a hidden mountain valley with a massive natural amphitheatre and a tempting dirt track heading into it. I'll be exploring there again as soon as I'm back in May. Vietnamese back roads are pretty nuts. Miles of salt farms, huts on stilts, pigs chickens and cows everywhere, desert swapping ...