Difficult to know when to get up because my hotel room has no windows but my consciousness came back to earth at its usual time of 5:30am and when I got outside and ran to the beach boardwalk I was surprised to find large masses of people enjoying the beach at that hour, all the more so because it is Sunday which means many people would have been out late the night before. Knowing nothing about Nha Trang I was not sure of the distance of the boardwalk but it seems to be a little under 3 miles because I ran half of the boardwalk going north, turned around at its endpoint and ran the entire distance of the boardwalk south, total distance according to gmaps is 4.25 miles, the shortest run I have done in a month but that would have been considered a long run back when I started my journey in Chiang Mai in late November. I will plan to run shorter distances while in Nha Trang because the boardwalk is crowded with people but the thing it has which the Bali path does not is exercise equipment along with pull-up and dip bars, so not having done pull-ups for the past 28 days I was a bit rusty and felt a loss of strength but after a week of daily practice I should be back to normal pull-up strength.
On the walk back to the hotel I bought an egg sandwich from a street cart for 15,000d ($.66). After eating and showering I decided to flesh out my airport transportation research by trying to find a bus stop for the #18, which goes from downtown Nha Trang to the airport in Cam Rahn. I was guessing it would take a lot of steps before I found the route, which was fine with me because it is a good excuse to be out walking and exploring. However, after walking 50 meters from my hotel I found the #18 stop and thought it fortuitous but tomorrow I check out of the hotel and will walk a mile to my AirBnB apartment, so I decided to walk there and find out if the #18 happened to have a stop nearby and the fortuitous day continued because one block from the apartment is a #18 stop so it looks like I will be able to take public transport to the airport. I also discovered that I can take the #152 Saigon bus from the airport to my AirBnB in District 1 and also take it back to the airport when leaving Vietnam. I am happy about this because public transport is cheaper than a taxi and more enjoyable from an adventure point of view.
