Julie & Mike - Day Minus 3

Okay, after 24+ hours in the air, our duo has made it to Seoul, Korea and are waiting for their flight to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) - as of 5am.

We suspected that their diet was going to be different, but last word was that they were already eating grubs in the Seoul Airport!

Sorry, eating some grub in the airport - eyes don't work well reading texts at 5am. Ahem....time change there, Mike.

So no grubs, but I think they can get ready for seeing a steady dose of large, crawly things as they pedal through Vietnam.

Jimmy Buffett, when encountered with a similar situation, wrote a song about it;

It's the small, small problems
That keep me so upset
And send me seeking shelter
Beneath my mosquito net

I stay there for hours
Protected from the night
All those insects and vipers
And other things that bite

Or as Mike himself put it:

"Gotta get my wig on straight to dodge all the rabid dogs, the Malaria, Dengue Fever, Hoof and Mouth (no kidding - new outbreak in Vietnam), Japanese Encephalitis, new virulent strain of H1N1 all the spiders and snakes known to the many little swampy bits of that neck of the woods and who knows what else. Cool. Excited? Oh Ya!"

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!So although he did feel like a pin cushion after all the vaccinations, all my talk of big spiders is way overblown.

I'm sure it is....

Let's hope their guides aren't reading this. Who's this guy you've got blogging for you? You like spiders, huh? We'll show you spiders!

Anyway, now they have a few days to get acclimatized to their surroundings before heading out on the road.