Thai / Laos border crossing via slow boat and Vang Vieng April 17th 2010 The last leg of the boat ride from Pak Beng to Luang Prabang left me feeling horribly ill and Scott with quite a cough. We got into the city about half an hour late, after dark and were welcomed with a mild rain falling on the city. We had both had such an unpleasant experience on the boat because of the cold and the horrible bedbug / tick incident in Pak Beng that we were being overly careful abo ... read more
Asia » Laos » West » Luang Prabang Laos was under the control of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the late 19th century when it became part of French Indochina. The Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907 defined the current Lao border with Thailand. In 1975, the Communist Pathe... ... read more
There once was a girl from Vancouver who traveled to Cuba with a friend for some much needed time away. While there she met a young man on vacation with his family. They became friends and kept in touch for many years. The young man, at the time, lived a world away from the girl and so they utilized the wonderful technology known as the internets until one day he returned to his homeland in Canada, and the online friendship blossomed into much more and they moved in together.
After a year of living together and working jobs for the man and the music industry they were considering taking it a... full info