Just when you thought you had seen it all, well, now you have! As we were walking down the beach front in search of a good place to grab a coffee, a moto scooter suddenly veers off the road as if he had run out of gas and had finally found a place to refuel. As most of the time when a local stops the very out-of-place foreigner in Vietnam on the streets, they usually want something in the form of money. Or, in this case Dong. This guy happened to be an "experienced" tour guide and wanted to talk us into doing a hill side scooter tour. What was interesting wasn't his pictures, which were actually amazing, but was that he aptly called his venture "Eddy Murphy Easy Rider - Adventure Tour - Fucking Cool". Incredible. You know when you are able to use two well known pop culture references followed by the expression "fucking cool" as your business name, you've got a pretty good command on the English language humor. That's the beauty I guess of doing business in an emerging economy; you can use the most outrageous English words and phrases known to man, because, hey, who is going to f*cking understand you?
Currently I'm in search of the next most ridiculous thing out there on the streets of Nha Trang and Vietnam. Maybe a scooter adventure to Da Lat this weekend will bring more enlightenment.
Until then, let's get weird.
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