{"id":14243,"date":"2021-08-20T06:32:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=14243"},"modified":"2021-08-20T06:32:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:32:44","slug":"good-morning-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/good-morning-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning, Vietnam!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was one of those crazy motorcycle adventure moments when a chance encounter leads to a lasting friendship.\u00a0 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 Catavi\u00f1a.\u00a0 It was a crowded scene with two or three Bajaenos<\/em> pouring gas from plastic water jugs into our motorcycles with bikes and bodies tightly crowded around.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Jump wings?\u00a0 That’s odd, I thought.\u00a0 I didn’t think any of the guys I was riding with was a fellow former paratrooper.\u00a0 That’s when I met Mike Huber.\u00a0 He hadn’t been riding with us; he just happened to get mixed into our group at the Catavina fuel stop.<\/p>\n

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Mike is a cool guy with a cool lifestyle.\u00a0 Most recently, that included a moto trip across Vietnam with his girlfriend, Bobbie.\u00a0 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<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0I enjoyed reading it and I think you will, too.<\/p>\n

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One of these days, I keep thinking to myself.\u00a0 Vietnam must be one hell of a motorcycle destination.\u00a0 Good buddies Buffalo and his cousin Tim also rode Vietnam, and you can read that story here<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s weird…I met both of those guys on a CSC Baja ride, too!<\/p>\n

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It was one of those crazy motorcycle adventure moments when a chance encounter leads to a lasting friendship.\u00a0 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 Catavi\u00f1a.\u00a0 It was a crowded scene with … Continue reading “Good Morning, Vietnam!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96,89,369],"tags":[4,555,2249,2250],"class_list":["post-14243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-zongshen","tag-csc-rx3","tag-mike-huber","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-motorcycle-riding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Huber.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14251,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions\/14251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}