Easy Riders are abound in Vietnam!  In any city or beach town on the coast you will find Easy Riders that are willing to take you on an adventure of a lifetime!!  A motorcycle journey for 3-30 days based on your wants touring the back roads of this overly touristic country.  They take you to places most travelers never see and all the while on the back of a bike!!  Can you really beat that!?!?!?

As we all know, or should at least know, the Ho Chi Minh Trail was a series of roads, paths and waterways used by the Viet Cong to get supplies to the South during the Vietnam War aka The American War.  The H.C.M. Trail was a pivotal reason why the Vietnamese kicked our Butts!!    Even though it was sad to know what happened here in Vietnam in the past, especially due to the actions of our own country, it was enlightening and empowering to know just how far Vietnam has come since the devastation of the American War.  Here we were sitting on the backs of motorcycles with Vietnamese natives driving us around their country, a country where its people exude a sense of pride from not only their history but their present.  The four of us genuinely got along and there was no animosity towards us for being Americans not only from them but from all the Vietnamese we encountered!

Seeing the barren fields as a result of Agent Orange being dumped on the jungles of Vietnam was humbling to say the least.  Knowing the extent of the damage that the U.S. Government poured onto the lands of this country and its people made us a little ashamed to hold our heads high our there!  These fields are still a kind of waste land where nothing grows even 40-50 years later and where it is still not unheard of for babies to be born with birth defects.

Moral of this country’s story: It is sad that this country and its people are still being punished years after the conflict has ended and relations have mended.  It makes us think that maybe we should take a lesson from this period in time and maybe make better decisions for a brighter future for all of us on this small blue and green ball we call home!!

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