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Good morning, VIETNAM

“FOLLOW, FOLLOW, FOLLOW, FOLLOW, FOLLOW The Ho Chi Minh Trail" Damn. As if it isn’t bad enough, I just cannot get that irritating (yet amusing) Robin Williams line from Good Morning Vietnam out of my head.

It's somewhere approaching midday and I'm wrestling with my granny gear on the lower slopes of the Hai Van Pass. This is a place I’ve read about for a decade or so, and have longed to ride; although this came with a whole lot of ‘guidebook trepidation’ attached.

Reports of wild weather and death-defying tour buses have me constantly glancing over my

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