Reflections of Joanne


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*VIETNAM, SPIRIT OF INDOCHINA*
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	4. Transportation Drive on the right? Signal your turns? Obey the speed limit? That stuff is for sissies. The Vietnamese abide by only one rule. The Law of Tonnage: Whoever has the tonnage makes the law. So if you are on a motorbike, give way to trucks and terrorize chickens. Or buy a bus horn. While on the bike, I had long since ceased sightseeing and limited my rather blurry horizon to the immediate implications of the next rock or rut. My bowels rumbled with the acidic warning of incipient diarrhea. My body creaked more than my bicycle and my sunburned skin felt like of an overripe melon about to explode. From deep in the nether regions of stiff-backed, prickly-skinned, head pounding Hell, I saw my guide take an abrupt turn onto a brambly footpath and disappear.