September 9, 2010
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Why Laos?: Trains, planes, and automobiles – the trek from Vientiane to Bangkok

Three a.m., my head was resting on a window that vibrated to the dips and grooves of an unknown Thai highway. The crick in my neck was horrible and the air conditioner refused to let up even with the vent closed. ‘Three-hundred and fifty baht’ I chuckled to myself, ‘all to save a hundred baht…didn’t

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September 8, 2010
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Why Laos?: Vientiane interlude

Laos…what a country.  I only got to see a little bit but what I experienced was amazing.  As I was walking down the road one day in the heat of the afternoon sweating like a pig watching the traffic go by I thought of a great way to describe the place, ‘wading through the nitty

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September 4, 2010
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Lao why?: Through the night

My eyes could hardly focus as I stumbled out of the air conditioned van into the quickly warming morning.  The last 11 hours had seen me stuffed into a minibus with 8 other people and thrown across almost a thousand kilometers of Thai landscape, driven through the night by a madman.  It took a few

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