This is an embarrassingly bad food recap post. Because I didn't really eat much authentic Laos food while I was traveling the county. I ate a majority of my meals drunk at the hostel. Or was so drunk after a day on the river in Vang...
If you want a taste of what it sounded like to be in Vang Vieng, Laos, listen to these songs. And then repeat. Over and over again. For two weeks...
On the day after my birthday I did nothing. Literally, nothing. I sat down in the morning in a booth of the hostel restaurant with my computer and didn't leave for maybe 8 hours. Finally I left and got Gus, played a futile game of...
I arrived back in Vang Vieng sometime the next afternoon. The hostel I was staying at before had nothing free, but the guy offered to let me stay in a bed with Andy… (seriously, what does this say about me???) I was tempted to take...
I thought I needed to get away. I thought I needed to stop sleeping with someone 10 years younger than me. I thought I needed to travel on my own again. I thought I needed to keep going with my plan. I thought I needed to do something more...
In retrospect: showing a guy the condom that you keep in your purse and telling him that you have your own room may send a strong signal. Like that he should ask if he should come upstairs before he even kisses you. And that when you...
I needed to get out of Vang Vieng. I started feeling like I'd been saying one thing and doing another. Saying that I just want a relationship and sleeping with guys who I probably shouldn't be. Saying that I'm not just on this trip to...
After a bumpy bus ride from Vientiane, one that was an hour late in arriving and only made pit stops by the side of the road, forcing me to pee in a bush, we arrived in Vang Vieng: a backpackers mecca revolving around rafting, drinking,...
How do you spend one night in Vientiane, Laos?...