Nick's Day 4 - Scooting around

orry about missing the last blog day but it has been one incredible ride these past two days. Me Nu is a relaxing and beautiful place yet very boring. Yesterday we had most of the day to kill in Mu Ne and so we decided to throw our hats into the ring of the moterists. That's right we rented scooters! Luckly there was room enough for our HUGE learning curves. As we pulled away (rather rocketed forward uncontrolably) the owner of the scooters was probably calling to verifiy that his insurance was still valid. After a few close calls, some terrified pedestrians, and a chipped mirror or two we were on our way and enjoying the beautiful scenery. We visited the nearby fishing village and mat got his hair cut. It was one of the more interesting places because not only do they cut your hair but pop all of your pimples and clean your ears (they had a dentist-like setup withpointy instruments and all and were working on someone when we arrived). We tore our way up to some pathetic sand dunes then got lost in the back country in search of a very elusive waterfall. We did however find an abandoned highway where we tested the limits of our crotch buggies. We toped out around 120 km/h, all the while loving the fact that this country doesn't have traffic police. We wrapped up our first scooter adventure and waited for our bus to Nha Trang. At this point matt was vying for the world record in sweating threw your clothes. Normally I wouldn't mention such trivial details but you should have seen the amount of sweat... The bus was much more relaxing this time around though when we stopped for gas I asked about the time and the driver said 5 mins so we waited next to the bus (we were starving and there was a noodle stand a half a block up. This german girl spoke to the driver and assured us that we had 30 mins so we took a gingerly stroll over to the noodle stand and began to feast on perhaps the best noodles yet. That's when a man came walking down the road to tell us he thinks our bus is leaving without us! So we throw down our chopsticks and sprint back we make it to the bus just as it was turning on to the highway. Panting and out of breath we are met by a very frantic and apologizing German girl. She makes it up to us by giving us great locations to visit along our route. Finally we arrived and it is a GREAT city. Livly night life, cheap, beautiful. Our hotel was fantastic (Peace Backpackers Hotel). I met a cool ex-pat who gave us some great insight as to what to do while here. Exhausted from traveling we crashed early.