Well Sunday was pretty eventful. I set off from the motel, all good and well. Not far out of Lang Co was a road closure, and a policeman directing traffic. But he beckoned me down the road that was closed. So I plodded on.
The road began to climb which was what looked to be another mountain pass. I was having trouble with my chain coming off, my rear axle had moved forward in the drop outs do the chain was slack.
I carried on just putting my chain on every now and then. I came across the obstruction in the road, two lorries had collided, one was blocking the road road, the other had crashed through the concrete barrier and went down the embankment! There was no getting past so I made my way back. My chain got worse and jammed between the sprocket and frame. A local stopped and asked if I wanted some help, I showed him the problem and he invited me to his home at the bottom of the hill. I sat with his family, must of been at least three generations, they brought their tools out and tensioned my chain properly. I had a beer with them then carried on around the diversion.
A bit later on another 'foreign' cyclist comes up next to me, we got chatting then sat down together for some food. He was a Slovenian called Rafael, spending one month cycling in Vietnam and then onto Cambodia. We were heading for the same place, Hue. We ended up sharing a hotel room and going out for food and beers.
The next day we rode around the Citadel in Hue, had lunch then he left on a bus up north. He was a sound guy, had done a lot of cycle touring before and it was nice to have some company.
One of my spokes snapped on my bike, I stopped at a roadside cycle repair place and he put a new spoke in and new pedals (my pedals were about to fail) for a whopping $3! Bikes as good as new and rides like a dream, well something like that.
Tomorrow I'm cycling along the coast to Dong Ha. After that I will cycle west towards the Laos border.
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