Bus trip to Louang Prabang took over 6 hours and all of it was on twisty, curvy roads through amazing scenery. I would have liked more of the scenery without any of the curvy road bits. I nearly tossed my cookies before our second stop. I was sweaty, shaky, and certain my nauseous stomach was going to be ugly, soon. At the stop, I searched my bag until I found my personal drug of choice: Meclizine (used to stop vertigo). I took that, shared an interesting half tuna and green salad sandwich (on the requisite baguette) with Barbara, and drank a bit of water. This bus stop intro’d me to Asian toilets. To wit, we’ve had a standard porcelain seat to do our business. But, this, this was different, very similar to public toilets encountered in
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