In Dalat there is group of outgoing and witty motorcycle guides, collectively known as the Easy Riders, who do tours around Dalat and the Central Highlands. They are quite easy to spot as they all wear matching blue windbreakers and ride the biggest motorcycles in town, but usually they seem to find the tourists first. One stopped me today as I was walking up the street and with a most impressive sales pitch, invited me to join him for the day. Had I not already made plans to go mountain biking, I most certainly would have but I had to politely decline. However, he gave me his business card and told me to call him if I ever came back to Dalat, which I assured him I would. The first name on the business card read "Nam", which as I learned from the signs on bathroom doors, means "man" in Vietnamese (yep, its man backwards). Just to be sure, I asked him the meaning of his name and he humbly replied, though with small grin, "It's just man." Awesome.
“There is no fun in a thorough understanding of any subject. A domain that naturally contains more mystery than is solvable on any given day, like fishing, is very enjoyable. Such mystery overflows itself.” --Scott Bowen
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