Saturday, November 11, 2006





This post is about my day trip out of Luang Prabang. It began with biking. About 20 minutes in, a taxi truck came too close for my comfort, so I rode over to the shoulder which turned out to be soft dirt, rolled off the bike, off the road and butt first through two horizontal strands of a barbed wire fence. Are you laughing? It was very funny. Mildly scratched and very dusty. But look where I got to wash my hands and face! Riding on we came by some rice fields where people asked us (so our guide translated) to take their picture. They then gathered in the bunch you see and I yelled "Neung 1-Sorng 2-Sahm 3." The waterfall was a collection of rock formations and trees - like a river, waterfall, forest combo. The paddle wheel contraption is used to pound rice. Walking away from the falls, I saw a group of Laos men with an AmeriCorps VISTA bag! Guide-facilitated Q&A followed in which I was told the bag came "from China" and during which I probably failed to convey the assumedly foreign concept of needing a 'program' to get young people to help in communities. They do know, however, that I have 'same-same' bag at home.

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