Bicycles

If you know me, you know I love bikes. So my first weekend in Hue I purchased a cheap, rickety, pumpkin colored bike with a white basket.

To highlight the character of Vietnam, I thought I should chronicle some of the creatures I have almost run over- or into- while on said bicycle:

-A female praying mantis
-Mutiple roosters
-A calf suckling its mother in the middle of the road
-Careless children
-Bamboo- which falls down in the storms
-Insence that people leave out to dry (they make inscence here with spice, glue, and water- roll it up on sticks, and set it in the street to dry in the sun)
-Piles of burning trash- because frequently people like to create little ashy bonfires in
the gutter to dispose of waste


Things that have almost run over me:

- Careless moto drivers
-Buses
-Little children whose careless parents let them drive bicycles and motos

Don't worry mom- I'm safe. It's all about traffic flow- I've got this.

much love- me