I miss my Peichi. Thoughts of her rise about me. Her smile breach my closed eyelids and her voice of care flutters my heart.
I long to travel to see, do and help much. However, apart from her I don’t long to be.
Thankfully, every journey is a step of growth and a step of [...]
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A sunset to come beckons me to scoot down a barely paved road and cross a river with only a local name. Riding many a kilometer along a dirt road as rare villages and fields and cows look the same. As sunset comes, black top is found again and the spell is broken. Another sunset [...]
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It’s a different class of foreigners in Vang Viang Laos.
They’re young, white and all speaking with some form of an European accent. The way the locals have adapted their livelihood to these so called tourists is quite sad.
The local Laos have moved from selling their own goods to those quick and ready to use [...]
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While traveling through Laos and Thailand earlier this year, I realized that what I was doing, didn’t feel right. I’m not sure what I should be doing yet, beyond focus more on my family, read and write more, and ponder and act upon helping others.
Therefore, major changes have been afoot.
On Monday I registered as a [...]
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In driving to Vang Viang, you’ll travel north via Highway 13 out of Vientiane through beautiful countryside that bumps, winds about and climbs as often as it falls.
Along the way, you’ll pull to the road side for letting on coming trucks pass and in other spots, stop to let the cows, goats and buffalo [...]
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