into the asiatic void: bangkok may 10, 2000 hola amgios, c’est moi, your ever-adventuring gringo travel fiend. i’m on another two month see-the-world-before-you-die discovery trek — this time to southeast asia. i left for bangkok on may 7th, and i…
South East Asia, 2000, chapter 9, life in laos
june 15th luang prabang, laos life in laos? slower. gentler. more flow, fewer touts. touts = aggressive, vietnamese tourist hawker/scammer/solicitors. what’s flowing here? the mighty mekong, biensur. even vientiane, the lao (rhymes with wow!) capital, still seems a run down,…