P2H3 Run #850: Outstation Run - Can Tho, Vietnam
Posted by p2h3hashtrash on April 17, 2008
Run Report: Blah Blah
Run Date: 17/04/2008 (Khmer New Year)
Hares: Saigon HHH
The Bus Diaries – a journey of discovery
Shaking off the cob webs after two days of free beer would be challenging for any, however to do it at 6:30am was the hurdle set by Tokyo Joe as a group of intrepid hashers met outside Wat Lanka for a trip to join the Saigon H3 in Can Tho, Vietnam. The day started off well, we made good time, we were in high spirits, we arrived at the wrong border crossing. Yes, despite the flagrant use of Tokyo Joe’s GPS, the bus company took us to Chrey Thum crossing only to discover foreigners cannot cross. Back on the bus, back up the Bassac, back to Takmau and back on to the original plan of going to Phnom Den. Despite losing a couple of hours the pack was still feeling the love, with Josh in particular taking the extra time to muse the mysteries of lactating males and a series of photos he recently saw of what sounded like a mass mooning exercise. Still we were not to be beaten and once through the border crossing were on our way when…. thump…..our new bus driver managed to clean up two motorcycles in one cunning maneuver. Off to the clinic we go.
Needless to say after all of these delays we arrived at the end of the hash and hence missed the first run. Still, enthusiasm abounded and donning the P2H3 silk bow ties supplied by Tokyo Joe we made our way to the dinner and later in the evening to the Mekong Restaurant where Flying Plod, Blah Blah & Mr Tinkle took particular delight in joining the silken clad Just Add Beer in a rendition of songs eminently suitable for children television shows. Magic Mushroom and Tinkle Spinner set about charming the Saigon Hash with their usual aplomb and Saigon Hasher Pencil Dick pitched in with a particularly fine ad-libbed verse to one of our tunes.
The next morning the pack boarded a boat with around 30 Saigon hashers and off we went for the run. The Saigon H3 had done a 12km run the day prior so were a little weary as were the P2H3 after their 14 hour bus ride. None-the-less a number of runners set off with Yap Yap off at a good pace in order to snap some photos and Naomi showing all the Saigon Hash her derriere as we went through a pleasant route amongst the canals of Can Tho. The circle saw the return of the aubergine, exquisitely dressed in its P2H3 silk tie, and the admission by Fester that he as actually Festering Chronic Masturbator, a fact he somehow forgot to convey to the Saigon Hash during his stay in Ho Chi Minh. Mighty Quinn was also forced by Tokyo Joe to admit that her mother hash was not the Saigon Hash as she has always claimed but in reality the P2H3. A day for releasing suppressed information indeed.
Many thanks go to Good to the Last Drop and the GM Woofter for putting on a good show and showering us with left over t-shirts from some abstract joint run they had with the Vung Tau Hash years in the past. We look forward to reciprocating at some stage when the trauma of the bus ride is but a faded memory.
The hash then split with some heading off to Ho Chi Minh and the rest boarding yet another bus for the trip to Ha Tien, beaches and lovely Vietnamese waitresses. However that is another story……
