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Here we go...another little installment, and hopefully pictures to be included. Sara and I are here in Vang Vieng, a small back packers 'haven' just north of the capital, Vientiane. Seemingly we have arrived here at a very interesting time as over the last few days the ongoing insurgency has been rekindled with a local (possibly a police officer or solider) being killed by the Hmong, a tribal people that have been fighting the communist government (on and off) for a couple of decades. The fighting had apparently all but concluded a couple of years ago with the surrender of a large cache of weapons by the rebels (whom I might add are, and have always been, sponsored by the CIA and Americans). For some reason, one that I'm not completely sure of, there seem to ... read more

Here we go...it's time to test out the Blog site and see if my sucess rate with uploading pictures improves beyond that which I have had the luxury of experiencing. Well, as I understand my last e-mail, which was sent from the hostel I stayed at in Bangkok was worth pretty much what I paid for the internet time I used to send it...nothing. The old adage, you get what you pay for rings true again. hahaha. In any case, Bangkok was terrible, a city so filthy and full of people that seemly hate life itself is not something that I have any desire to spend excessive time immersed in. There are just three things that I will happily take with me, authentic muay thai boxing, the Wat (temple) that housed the enormous reclining buddha, and ... read more