I haven't posted an update for a while, not much to update about since most of our arrangements are now made and we're just counting down the days until we head out! Around 90 days from today but who's counting?
I finally managed to work up a video to cover off the last part of Nambusters II. The footage was all taken during the last day as we were heading back from Ha Giang to Lau Cai. Regrettably, the highlight of that day, where we made some new friends at a very remote village and gave them our comedy 'gifts' was not caught on camera - not video camera anyway. We did get photos and they can be seen under the day 6 write-up.
Even so, we travelled through some quite varied terrain and weather conditions on the last day. To start off there were quite serious looking clouds and we thought we were heading for a drenching. Fortunately the clouds slowly gave way to a lovely warm afternoon which was perfect for riding. We also had to repair the Sufat subframe on a few occasions, getting it welded at least twice during the day. In the end, we offloaded the luggage strapped to the back onto my bike to lessen the weight on the subframe, and Del fixed it up with cable ties that held nicely.
After some punishing off-road 'roads' we found ourselves on a glorious ribbon of mountain road that went on and on. I followed Jim for that section and could tell he was properly enjoying it. No photos or footage because we were too busy having fun. Eventually we pulled in at Lao Cai and wrapped the trip up there before taking the night train back to Hanoi.
The video below has two parts, the first being the last section of the trip, and following that there's a brief highlights bit from the whole trip. Enjoy!
