Day 35 25 May 2013 Sapa to Kunming,China Although I have extensive travel experience my next step greets me with some apprehension and a degree of doubt as to how I am going to handle things on my own. At this time I miss a person with me who I can talk to and discuss my options, if any. The demons I am facing is like standing in front of a hill where you can see the top but to get there you need to go uphill with a heavy backpack. However I have learned that ...

Day 34 24 May 2013 Sapa The bus trip was comfortable and I slept fairly well. After a stop in Lao Cai one of the guys next to me wanted to get off but I had already spotted the parking area where I had been before. He checked his phone map and said that we were right on the Chinese border. Right I said so you can choose to continue sleeping as we still are 33 km from Sapa and that will take at least 45 minutes as it will be slow going up the mountain pass. We ...

Day 33 23 May 2013 Hanoi to Sapa This morning I bandaged Lien's leg for the last time and said that I would see her this afternoon not realizing that she needed to leave by three o’clock so I never saw her again. But no doubt I will call in when I am in Belgium. It rained this morning, not much else to do than hanging around the neighborhood. Something I forgot to do was to get my eyes checked and new reading glasses made. An eye check cost $2 and new g...

Day 32 22 May 2013 After cleaning Lien's wound again, which incidentally showed a remarkable improvement, I texted Eddie with the message not to ask questions but to supply his bank account number. Meanwhile Glenn had fronted and paid for the bike. Most of the morning I worked on what I had started last night. I build a website to help Tommy. Funds need to be generated to get him in a better place. Be it the French hospital or this one there treatment must b...