Lao Bump Kins

Sun setting over the bridge on that day a decade and a half ago Laos began for me the way lots of things do, as a visa run. It was the late ...

This book is not yet available (4/2/11)  But who knows, it soon might well be. I'm not quite sure what Paul's last book was about, s...

                                           Abandoned Mansion on Mekong 2001 A couple of months ago I was contacted by an online media specia...

Yonder Above the blogger Marine Richard, a French woman who travels through Laos alone. The  name of her blog la-haut  translates into Yonde...

Tree in front of Wat Song Buay on the way there To kill time waiting to leave Laos I took my rental bike and drove up to the Hmong town at k...

My camera uses rechargeable batteries. Mostly I like it, one charge lasts a long time, no batteries to throw away. I keep everything charged...

I wandered over to Pantip Plaza to buy an extra battery for my camera. The local Circuit City back home didn’t carry them. I figured if it’s...

Entrance to the Atlanta Hotel I first stayed at the Atlanta about thirteen years ago in the middle of the wet season 1996. My mom in law, my...

I love these outlines in the road. Somehow they seem to trace the edges of a life, well maybe a wrecked motorcycle anyway. I took this up at...

I like the Black Stupa in that it is a historical Tat that is simply in the middle of a roundabout in the middle of a busy town. No one sell...

Looking North from Boyee Sang Mai. After fifty miles or so there is the place where the Nam Ou curves back to the west, then after another l...

This is a bus Guard at the Kasi Lunch stop Nothing like a picture of a folding AK strapped to someone’s back to grab the readers attention....

Once I turn around and start heading home trips often seem to end quickly. It’s like the horse knowing it’s headed for the barn after workin...

After a couple of hours the bus to Pongsali shows it’s true colours. The pavement ends and the bus fills with passengers. Leaving Oudomxia i...

I didn’t know it but New Years is some sort of big holiday in Luang Prabang. I don’t mean Pi Mai but regular New Years. I arrived two days b...