We leave for Cambodia in a matter of minutes. Vietnam has been a country full of surprises, something that i half expected but never thought that it would have left me so breathless so many times..
Josh went to great efforts to tell you how amazing our time in the north of the country truly was, but there are no words that can explain to you how surreal the entire last week has been. Three days ago we had gone through and entire day of enduring, tiresome and inspiring dirtbiking through the country, to break down fall behind schedule and arrive at our boat to Bebe national park at dark. after we CAREFULLY loaded our bikes, packs and 4 guys( Josh, myself, our giude minh and the dirver/owner of the house we are staying with) on this boat, that could maybe be categorized as a large raft with an engine, we were off.
We lay on the front of the boat in the pitch black with the dark silhouettes of the mts on either side of this narrow river a bright half moon leading the way and fireflies along both sides of the water. The sky was full of stars, something rarely seen in Boston, or even fl and ca. for that matter. a shooting star and the sounds of crickets were the only sights and sounds other than the dull humm of the motor putt putting along.
We sat there wondering if we had ever in a million years thought we would be in north Vietnam in the middle of a lake in the dark with two Vietnamese, three dirt bikes and the sweat tears and cuts to prove the journey was an arduous one?......Not in a million.
No matter how hard try to explain or describe what it was like to be in that moment there are no pictures or words that can convey what the thoughts and feelings were like going through out minds and bodies right at that moment. It was something that i will never forget.
Cambodia and another adventure and story awaits.
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