Who does that???? Yes, I literally rode off a bridge and fell into the Mekong River!!!! I swear, I am the most accident prone person I know. Ughhh!!! To be fair, it wasn’t a huge bridge but it was very narrow and I had issues with changing gears. Thankfully, it was on the incline so I didn’t fall to far. I missed hitting a metal pylon with my face by 3 inches. I really thought the edge of the water would have been shallow, but it must have been more then 6 feet ’cause I totally went underwater and hit the muddy bottom. Fanny pack and all! I think I scared our guide more then anything. Everyone was freakin out as they thought I had hurt myself. Shockingly, not even a scratch! I must be a cat with 9 lives…and probably down to 2.
Aside from that mishap…we made it to Saigon yesterday in one piece (well me…just barely
. The night before was really unique as we spent the night at the Kinh Family’s Bed & Breakfast, type Inn on AnBinh Island in the Mekong River. The island is not beachy. 5,000 residence live there and are mostly fisherman and small merchants. The 12 of us shared a 1 room, open-air pavillion set up with 12 cots and indivdual blue mosquito nets. They had these rickety, old fans on the ceiling for additional ventalation. It was great!
We enjoyed, red-rice wine and beer, riverside on stone benches and tables before dinner. We ate this tastly, barbequed meat a little, old, Vietnamese women cooked in a metal-bowl like grill on the ground. It was RAT!!! It was REALLY good!!! So much better then spiders. We also had elephant-earred fish, grilled prawns, spring rolls and vegetables. We celebrated one of the Dutch girl’s 35th birthday with a surprise birthday cake we picked up in Chau Doc. Our Vietnamese guide then taught us how to play a local drinking game involving cards, spoons and snake, blood whiskey. We laughed into the early evening and went to bed by 11pm as we still had to ride in the morning.
