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Henna painting at the Somali table. The Hmong table had embroidered history lessons, as well as a book on the rol...

J got me out of the house early Monday to see an 11am movie (more on that in another post) then to get a toilet tank flapper and a new ice ...

JL suggested I read the Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill. It was checked out from Loussac library so J brought Thirty-Three Teeth ....

Next Wednesday we'll have been in Thailand 30 days. That means we have to make a border run to get another 30 days. But they've ch...

Burmese exile Kyi May Maung put links to my Border Run posts on her blog this week. She's also got two poems in a new anthology Langua...

Given the level of geographic illiteracy in the world, I should have done this long ago. I'm still pushing it, I know, by using Alaska...

It was a very pleasant surprise to see Kotee helping out at the Thai Kitchen the other night. He's part of the Thai Kitchen 'family...

Wow - another story telling show. This time three main story tellers presenting some of the stories of Lao Refugees to the US. They aren...

Dinner in Pak Bang after the first day of boating with the Tosas and Nellie, the French nurse. The main street of Pak Bang the next morni...

Our boat, #77, from Luang Prabang to Pak Bang. The slow boat up the Mekong was a great way to slow down and relax. We went into another w...

Here are some folks we met in Laos. Jamie and Patrick are two Canadians from Vancouver who claim that some friends left before we came and t...

Went to the pier to check out how to catch the slow boat to Pak Ban tomorrow. We bought our tickets and then looked for a seamstress to se...

Here are a couple of shots of the first evening. Here are our Italian friends Enrica and Cristina. The vegetarian dinner spot where every...

Here are some shots of Luang Prabang from Phousi Hill the first evening.

I'm figuring out how to use this machine. Sort of. These are pictures from yesterday's bike ride. Here's the lady at the shop...

Our 10:10am flight left at noon - the smoke in Luang Prabang was too bad to fly in. But eventually we got there. Then several of the peopl...