Motorcycle Explorer Jan 2017 Issue 15 | Page 13

Why Vietnam? I’ve wanted to ride in another country for years. Vietnam is different, reasonably close, cheap, very mountainous and a fun place to visit (having been there once a few years ago). I also had the chance to do the trip with my 22year old daughter Jazmin. Awesome. To top it off a bunch of riding mates were interested – and so then we were 7. Greeny, his wife Alison, Eric and Louise and Gavin. I hesitate to call us the Magnificent Seven. There were no towns to save, or people to rescue, and our steel steeds were certainly much smaller than cowboy horses but we tackled everything the trip threw at us and had a ball.