Jet Set Zero » out of gas http://jetsetzero.tv A jet set life on zero dollars. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:16:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Out of gas on Cat Ba Island http://jetsetzero.tv/2010/02/04/out-of-gas-on-cat-ba-island/ http://jetsetzero.tv/2010/02/04/out-of-gas-on-cat-ba-island/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:36:17 +0000 Jen http://www.jetsetzero.tv/2010/02/04/out-of-gas-on-cat-ba-island/ Kris and I have been renting motorbikes in almost every city we’ve been to and exploring on our own.  Often times when we are given the motorbikes the gas tank is DRY.  It costs about $2.50 to fill up a tank and it lasts a long time, so we’ve gotten into the habit of putting small amounts of gas in and returning the tank as dry as when we got it.  A full tank of gas goes a LONG way so we never  ever fill it all the way.  While on Cat Ba Island, as per usual we rented a bike and we didn’t think the island was very big so we put in 10,000 dong worth of gas (that is about 50 cents or so).  Turns out the island is a hell of a lot bigger then we thought and sure enough we ran out of gas.  The island is pretty much deserted off the main strip and we were about 17kms away.  After walking for about 2kms, a stranger stopped and took us to a house that we would’ve otherwise walked by where we were able to buy a water bottle of gas which ended up costing $3.  This is not the first time we’ve run out of gas, it happened twice in Hoi An, on the same day and yet we still didn’t learn our lesson.  From now on, I think we’ll stop being such cheap asses and start putting in a full dollar.

Kris pushing our motorbike on a deserted stretch of road.

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