Good Morning, Vietnam!

It was one of those crazy motorcycle adventure moments when a chance encounter leads to a lasting friendship.  I was leading a group of maybe 10 guys on CSC RX3 motorcycles in Baja and we stopped to buy bottled gas from the capitalists along the Transpeninsular Highway in Cataviña.  It was a crowded scene with two or three Bajaenos pouring gas from plastic water jugs into our motorcycles with bikes and bodies tightly crowded around.  That’s when I noticed a tailpack on one of the bikes that looked different from the rest of our RX3s, and suddenly the difference hit me: It was bigger than the others and it had jump wings on the back.

Jump wings?  That’s odd, I thought.  I didn’t think any of the guys I was riding with was a fellow former paratrooper.  That’s when I met Mike Huber.  He hadn’t been riding with us; he just happened to get mixed into our group at the Catavina fuel stop.

Mike is a cool guy with a cool lifestyle.  Most recently, that included a moto trip across Vietnam with his girlfriend, Bobbie.  Mike published a story in ADVMoto, a magazine that has previouly published work by yours truly and Joe Gresh. Mike’s Vietnam adventure is here.   I enjoyed reading it and I think you will, too.

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One of these days, I keep thinking to myself.  Vietnam must be one hell of a motorcycle destination.  Good buddies Buffalo and his cousin Tim also rode Vietnam, and you can read that story here.   It’s weird…I met both of those guys on a CSC Baja ride, too!

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