Hoi An to Quang Ngai 9 /9/09

Today was the Hardest day ,we cycled approximately 156 km to Quang Ngai from Hoi An. we left Hoi An at 7 am and we arrived at Quang Ngai at 7 pm aprroximately,.
The road to Quang Ngai was good as it was the National Highway 1 or in vietnamese.."muk lao mot"we had a few stops for "Nouc Mia"( sugar cane juice)and we had lunch at a little town called Tam Ky we went to a local "COM" it was a "RICE" shop or rice restaurant and had rice and what ever was on the menu that day the shop next door was a hang out for students ...the specialty of the shop was a kind of Vietnamese ICE KACANG shaved ice with preserved fruits coconut shavings and many others that I don't quite know what it was, after our lunch break it was still another 60 or so Km to go when we got to 15 km outside of Quang Ngai it started to pour...its been raining almost everyday but today was the heaviest so far..we had to take shelter coz we couldn't see the road and it was dark as well we we got to Quang Ngai it was almost 7 pm we stayed at the hotel recommended by Lonely Planet book 'KIM TAN" on Huong Voung street.
After a well deserved shower we went next door to another local restaurant ,we had Grilled pork,fried vegetables, and steam fish, we thought it was a whole fish but when it came out it was fish cutlets..looks like Jew fish cutlets steam with ginger and shallots
after dinner I phoned my friend sliver to get in contact with Lucky's family to come Pick up the pictures of his new baby girl,,,I was lying in bed when there was a knock on the door,,it was Silver's brother and Lucky's sister..they came to take me to Lucky's home..I met all of Lucky'a family and his mother,they are a very loving family,full of love for Lucky's mother who is bed ridden, they fed her milk thru a tube a spoon full at a time..they even massage her neck when she was coughing.Lucky's sister Vy was quite well spoken in english I learn that she is doing her final year at university in Saigon after the short visit I had to go to sleep as I was rweally tiread after that long long day....tomorrow we go to Sa huynh, thank god its going to ba a short day..62 Km...