I fell in love with Vietnam tonight!!

I've been here 7 months and I finally fell in love with Vietnam.  Yes there have been moments of lust and deep caring but tonight I fell in love.  I took my bike out for its first voyage solo through the city and it was amazing.  I finally saw Vietnam the way you are meant to see it.  I have been on the back of motorbikes but this is different.  Tonight I finally felt like I live here, it was pretty cool.  It is crazy though, because bicycles just ride with the motorbikes and cars on the streets.  I am just peddling down the middle of the road and intersections, pretty crazy but I feel really comfortable.  I think I am fine because I have been riding a bike my whole life and can manage it very well, now a motorbike is quite different. 

I ran some errands with my bike and rode around for an hour before watching The Amazing Race with the girls and having dinner.  Then I went out for another hour bike ride because it was just so much fun.  On the second ride I put my heart rate monitor on.  I just rode around downtown and back for an hour, burned 500 calories, crazy.  I mean I was trucking at times on my 3 speed cruiser :-) but didn't expect to burn that many calories, whohoo! 

Now I just need to have a talk with Gym and tell him that I'm going to be seeing Bike more, I hope he takes it alright.  I can't believe I have been here 7 months and today was the first day I really felt independent, it was liberating.  FREEDOM!!!!  I can say that $92 was some of the best money I have ever spent! 

So I have new found independence that is amazingly fun and burns tons of calories, AWESOME!!

Side Note:  To all you worriers & motherly types, I am wearing my helmet!!!