First, the website has been updated with the Vietnam photos. I apologize for the poor formatting in places–there are some photos that still need cropping–but for four hours of frantic Webwork/sorting through about 500 photos, it’s not so bad. (I apologize for not including the Laos pix, especially the glorious sunsets over the Mekong River–but [...]
Apologies for the long radio silence, but I’ve been doing relatively uninteresting stuff for the last week or so. (Unless you have a passionate interest in the sociology of AIDS, that is. It is actually quite fascinating, but I’m not going to inflict the academic details on you, and I haven’t managed to digest them [...]
It occurs to me that most of you probably haven’t the foggiest where Laos is, so I thought I’d provide some background:
Laos is in the center of Southeast Asia, surrounded by Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China. Very poor country, very little infrastructure, no coastline–so dependent on its neighbors for trade. Laos’s existence as an independent [...]
So I flew from Hanoi to Vientiane this morning–I had planned to take the bus, but after listening to the horror stories from some travelers who’d done it recently, I decided to fly instead. (26 hours on the bus, not 20, and the bus only stopped once the entire time. Thanks, but I’ll pass.)
Vientiane is [...]