Thanks Asus, for being to sh*tty for me to post my video
I meet Chris and Blake while humoring a Vietnamese scam artist (I was already "onto" her when she'd slipped up in miscounting her siblings, but cheers to these guys for confirming my suspicion, and interjecting that beers cost 10,000 dong (as opposed to 50,000, as she quoted me while ordering). She realizes I'm more inclined to hang out with them then get her paid, so she qietly and awkwardly takes off. The forced hug was really something else.
Chris and Blake had met in Thailand and were following similar itineraries, and had so reconvened here. They introduce me to their "guide," a toothless vietnamese nutball who smokes like a chimney1 and speaks good English - apparently Blake is riding from here to Hoi An with this crazy man via motorcycle. Not a short ride, btw. They'd stayed in HCMC longer than expected (about a week), and had a few spots to eat and hang out, so I threw in my lot with them.
We stay in Pham Ngu Lao, meeting occasionally with girls the two of them had met with their lead-in line: who would win in a fight, a bear or a lion?" (the guys are in consensus: its clearly bear btw) - they had made some cute friends with this one, I should add. I assure them I'll only be wing-manning them, rather than competing with them, and they drop their guard toward me and we have a bang-up time. Above video is on the streets of District 1, Chris getting hustled into buying books and cigarettes from Vietnamese kids around 1 am. I'm jealous of Blake's bike journey. I gotta get back on a bike.
1 - Earmuffs, Eric: This is a case of the proverbial "chimney" calling the "chimney" a "chimney" by the way. Smokes are 30,000 dong and a conversation starter! At prices like these, you can't afford NOT to smoke <<coughhackcough>>!!
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