Surreal scene from the first big day of riding. We started in Hue, riding through the chaos and honking of city traffic. Half an hour later, it was like riding into the pages of National Geographic...a narrow farm road, no traffic, and all these crazy burial mounds that seemed to stretch on for miles across the misty landscape. This is when it really kicked in for me that I was very very far from home. Photo by G. Huntley

Surreal scene from the first big day of riding. We started in Hue, riding through the chaos and honking of city traffic. Half an hour later, it was like riding into the pages of National Geographic...a narrow farm road, no traffic, and all these crazy burial mounds that seemed to stretch on for miles across the misty landscape. This is when it really kicked in for me that I was very very far from home. Photo by G. Huntley