You know how sometimes you find yourself a hot spot and then you don't want to tell anyone about it because then you'll see everyone there?  Well I'm reluctant at this moment to spill the beans but I must. 

I'm in love! With Laos.  For a long time I've been looking for a certain something in my travels, and I've found it here.  I've only been here for about three days but it's been long enough for me to start thinking about coming back for a long time.

When I moved to Thailand, I would sit in Chiang Mai and look around me, see these non-adventurous, lame and boring looking types walking around and thought to myself "is that me?"  Am I just another one of these cats looking for adventure in all the wrong spots?  Sort of like coming to California to conquer a frontier land, in the 1950's if that makes sense. 

And it's not as if Laos is any sort of frontier...to say the least.  There is certainly a fair amount of tourism here that is a bit dodgy, but after being in Thailand for a few years and learning the language and culture, coming to Laos is like a breath of fresh air stinking of cowshit and adventure.

Vientiene is a dodgy shit hole, apparently, but I have to say.  There's something about it that I love. And I went into the mountains for a day and had one of the best times I've had in Asia.  The people are less propper than Thais, but still a simmilar culture, and everyone understands Thai so there's none of the communication problems like I had when I first got to Asia.  Sabaii Sabaii

For a landlocked country it's just amazing and beautiful, fresh....ahhh can't say enough good things.

Picture me smiling like I've just has a yummy  plate of oysters...that's me right now.