Pakbeng

Another small, quaint river town on the Mekong. Tried water buffalo and seaweed for dinner, Yum!

Huay Xai

Just Xai is a small river town where the Chinese trade with the Loations. We spent one night there. Many tourists. The younger ones of our party hit a karokie club and were out very late!

All night train and Chaing Mai

We are backing up to explain leaving Bangkok to Chaing Mai on the all night train. We had little compartments that fit Sara completely, Bob not so much!

Here is the temple (Wat) on a mountain outside of Chaing Mai. We went to hear the monks chanting at sunset.

Mekong River Cruise

We spent 2 days floating down the Mekong River. The river is the supply life blood of the area. Our family lives on their boat--note satellite dish. The villages increased as we got closer to Laung Prabong. They grow corn, sweet potatoes along the river bank. They also brew Lao whiskey from corn mash

Our travel friends

We are traveling with ten others: 3 Brits, 4 Canadians ,1 Irishman, 1 Portuguese, and 1 Aussie and our Cambodian guide. What a fun group of people! We are all mixing so well! Here we are in Lao.

Bangkok

after 26 plus hours travel from Seattle, we landed in Bangkok! We are 14hours ahead of Boise time. Yesterday, we went by tuk tuk to many temples . Traffic is insane, our eyes are burning from pollution, but we love this place. last night we went to Chinatown and had a wonderful dinner for 3$!

Trip To Indochina

The hats were provided by our friends, Connie and Larry Seitz. They are getting us prepped for our upcoming trip.

We leave Monday, January 9th and arrive at 11pm January 11th...24 hours on a plane. I hope they allow jogging in the aisles! Bangkok is 14hours ahead of Boise time.

The blog will be more of a challenge as we are doing it on our ipad and don't quite know how to sync it yet. Hope it works!