Day 52 18th jan 6 o'clock and I'm awake.... Awoken by a sound I've begun to hate... Shirees alarm clock.... It's always set around an hour earlier than id set mine, apparently so we can "snooze" We pull ourselves together and head down for an early breakfast... Heads banging, and with stomachs that feel like they could easily be emptied into a bucket.... Oh the irony.... The breakfasts across Asia have rarely met with my approval and despite the staffs best...

Day 51 17th jan Today is going to be an easy day.... We need to clean the bike up again and take a look at an oil leak that's started since the piston was replaced.... I've brought a selection of tools with me but typically I need a socket I've not got... I wipe the oil off the engine and take the bike for a quick ride around the block... The oil leak is not huge and nothing's really noticeable on my return... I take it for a longer ride to warm the engine u...

Day 50 16th jan 186km to our last hotel in Ho Chi Minh.... We leave the hotel early... By 8.15am we are on the road for the last leg of our trip... Its a reasonable length journey and we know how busy the roads can be in the major cities.... The road surface is typically bumpy... There are huge ruts in the Tarmac caused by the heavy trucks repeatedly going over the same areas of hot Tarmac... These ruts are around 3 inches deep, and the sides raise another...

Day 49 15th. Today we test the bike... 108km south west from Dalat to Bao Loc on the QL20 again. The QL20 is a great road....and we both love it.... The road surface itself however we don't love..... its pretty bad.... pot holed everywhere and you'll easily ruin a tyre if you take your eye off the ball... We are sorry to leave Dalat behind... Its a lovely place, so before we do, and because the time is getting ever closer to are arrival in Ho Chi Minh and th...

Day 48 14th jan We have booked ourselves on a tour today which leaves our hotel at 8.20.... 7 o'clock I'm up and out the door... After a nights sleep we decide to get a price on getting the bike repaired whilst we are out for the day.. We are not overly concerned about getting it fixed as I'm sure it'll make it to Ho Chi Minh fine, just a little slower and smokier than we expected... I've been told by the hotel staff of a local garage which opens early, so af...