Lao Bump Kins

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...

638 headed downhill in Wyoming Photo by Scott Lambert

Barber Shop Ban Nong Tang. Above is the place down the road that I went to most often. Creag was usually well behaved. It was also my chance...

The dalat, or market in English, is where it’s at. If you don’t raise your own food, someone from your household goes to the market every da...

On the cutting board at home in Ban Nang Tang I used to call this stuff Vietnamese sausage. The Vietnamese in America make it for sale. I ha...

Lao coffee despite being thick enough to eat with a fork, contains not enough caffeine for me. Once in a while I drink M150. I like it’s sug...

Cooking up the soup over charcoal in Bien's kitchen Just before we left Laos Sengthian cooked me up some Gaeng Kai Mot Daeng next door a...