Day 43 9th jan Today we travel 305km south from Hoi An to Quy Nhon - eight and a half hours..... which is a half way stop off point between Hoi An and Nha Trang. It's another day of pretty much non stop riding on Highway 1..... Rice fields and mountains galore.... but this time we've come prepared... We have lunch, which we pull off the main road and stop halfway down a rice paddy access track to enjoy. I think we are the only westerners that have ever been d...

Day 42 8th jan We leave the hotel on the bike in search of a floating bridge... I'd seen pictures on the internet and wanted to cross one.... There basically a bamboo road that floats on plastic drums.... I've searched google maps and think I've located one a few miles up the road so off we go.... We just amble along, stopping for fuel before we arrive at the location on the map..... There's no bridge..... Instead of turning around we just keep going along this...

Day 41 - 7th jan We wake up and have a good breakfast.... Lots of fruit.... And cereals. We have a couple of jobs to do today.... And the first one is to copy the photos from the memory card in the camera to our hard drive.... we have a computer in our room so we get to work, but something's wrong.... The computer will not find any photos on the memory card and won't even load the hard drive at all..... We give up and leave the hotel in search of a Internet ca...

Day 40 6th jan We are up and having breakfast for 8.00 today as we travel to Hoi An 31km south.... It's the shortest distance we'll travel between over nights stays.... With the bike fully loaded up we depart Da Nang heading for the Dragon Bridge.... Every time we have ventured out of the hotel in Da Nang we are instantly lost.... I'm sure they move the buildings every night.... It's the only place we've been to where we fail to get a fix on where we are,...