Going off-road

Day plan: make it to Phong nha Nationalpark, 380 km away. A long day driving but with good roads it should be possible. If we would have stayed on the good roads and kept the tasks separated, Jeff is the driver and Caro the navigator, it would have worked out. But Jeff trusting Google maps' suggestion led us to a road with tire tracks till half a meter deep and parts where Betsy couldn't made it up in first gear. This set us back 2 hours. It was exciting and we managed to do it but our time plan was totally gone. Being on tarmac again we went full throttle and still drove 240 km that day.

We reached Pho Chau (a shithole) and  found a "Hotel". Now we think that it would have been better to sleep on a field or in the woods. We tried to avoid our room as much as possible, so we walked around the town looking for food. It was hard to find anything (unusual for Asian countries), after a while we found a shabby street food stand. We went for the save option, fried rice and Pho (noodle soup). Next to us were some drunk guys sitting and off course they started to talk to us. It would not have been bad if we would not have been so grumpy and pissed of by the hotel. We got strong alcohol from them and to be polite we drank the first few ones. After 4 glasses of rice wine (more Schnaps then wine) we tried to refuse. I can only tell that this escalated a bit.