It's only a few hundred kilometers between Vieng Vang and Luang Prabang, but you have to go up and then back down a huge mountain range and, being Laos, the roads are not exactly in tip top shape. So the trip ended up being 7 hours of windy, nausea inducing driving in an old rickety bus. To compound matters, the rambunctious day we'd spent on the river the day before came back to haunt us a bit...making the whole thing that much more enjoyable. Podcasts, lots of ...

Feeling good after a few Margaritas with Chris and Christy we bid them farewell, with hopeful plans to meet up in Siem Reap, Cambodia. We got back to our guesthouse at the designated pick up time of 6:30pm. By 7:15, and after some concern that they weren't coming, they finally showed up. Not entirely sure why we were surprised, since leaving Germany there hasn't been much of anything that has been on time. And what is sort of becoming a pattern, we were the last ...