After a full and very intense week of backpacker debauchery in vang vieng we knew we had to book a bus out before we were all working for Q-bar and got sucked in forever. Dave court and I booked a 1230 bus to the Laos capital of Vientiane. The bus ride was only a few hours and when we arrived Court and Dave went to explore the boardwalk along the Mekong as well as the night market there. My plan was to stay in and get some journal writing done and enjoy the bad t...

Kate and I arrived in Vang Vieng with our new friend Dave a week ago, not knowing much about it except for the random things we had heard about tubing down the river. After some information from some people we randomly met on the street we found out that people don't really even tube. They just go to the river and stay at the first 3 bars. So the next day Kate, Dave and I went to the river to go drink and see what "tubing" was all about. We had a blast! They ha...

After being with our group of 10 through a 7 hour bus ride from Pai and a 2 day slow boat down the Mekong we ended up in Luang Probang a couple if nights at the illegal night club and the next night led us to Utopia the most amazing bar on the riverside, sheesha, riverside lounging and a beach volleyball court! After a few drinks, our crew of ten decided to get some shots. We meandered up to the bar and started ordering a plethora a shots that no one really neede...

After spending some time in Pai we met a bunch of other travelers and after a few nights of dance parties and open mic nights and a treacherous and fantastic day at the waterfall we decided to continue on to Laos as one big group. We all were expecting to grab a bus out if town in the early afternoon and had our bags packed and ready to go. A little more research and we discovered we would have to wait until 8pm to leave. To waste our day literally we went down t...

So after going over our budget for the first two weeks Kate and I decided that we needed to start cutting back. Something of an austerity program. We thought it would be best to find the cheapest accommodation possible so that we could still spend lots on food and tours and such. So we went for a stroll and found what we thought were cute little huts along the river. We were fairly tired from the night before so we decided to lay low for the day in and around t...