Heads up! Below is a super long post about bike stuff. If you like this sort of thing you can subscribe to my newsletter about bike rides. I arrive in Vietnam with a vague plan: bike from Saigon to Hanoi. At a Czech bar in Saigon an English expat tells me there are two possible routes: Route 1A, which follows the coast and is Vietnam’s main artery, and the Ho Chi Minh Highway, which runs up the ce