Well my last day in Luang Prabang was spent with my traveling friend Myrna.  After we enjoyed a fantastic french-inspired Laotian breakfast, she rented bikes for us to go riding around the city, and we did.  I think both of us worked up a real sweat but neither of us seemed to mind too much.  We [...]

Today, I booked a group tour that turned out to be absolutely fantastic. I departed in a minibus with 3 new friends on a 45 minute drive to a Hmong village where we walked around and got to see local villagers and their way of life. It was quite beautiful and sad at the same [...]

Some guys have all the luck in the world; somehow things just have a way of working out the best for them.  I consider myself one of those lucky people.
I left Chiang Mai at 8PM on a group tour in a 14 passenger mini-bus with a group of Holland, Dutch, Austrian and New Zealand backpackers [...]