Jen and Ted in the SEA

Well we made it out of Vietnam in one piece last night. At one point it became a bit questionable. A good rain started in the afternoon then quit for a few hours. During this reprieve, we grabbed a cab to this great outdoor restaurant for rice panckes and rice rolls with shrimp and bean sprouts. Both were excellent. As we got up to leave it started raining lightly and how fitting was that, as if Vietnam didn't want us to forgot that it rains (after spending many biking days thoroughly soaked) it started to pour, and I mean POUR!!! Streets and intersections were over knee deep in places and our taxi was stuck in traffic enroute to the aiport. A few other vehicles were stalled and being pushe out of the way and I could hear the sound of running water sloshing against the underside of the car. And then our driver saw and opening and decided to go for it! He stepped on it and luckily made it through without stalling but then more water ahead slowed our progress again.

Finally, without much further delay we got to the airport and boarded our lovely 747 back to Thailand. It was also nice to be on Air France as we finally felt able to understand a the flight staff's language completely rather than just the usual words we can pick out like "two", "chicken", "please", "excuse me", "thank you".

With one last adventure, were out and we are stuck with the memory that it rains in Vietnam.