Sunday, Feb 17, 2008

This morning at breakfast, I bump into Nathan and Laura (from the Mekong boat trip and Phnom Phen)! Stoked. I invited them over to join us for breakfast and spent the day, myself and Johanneke, Nathan and Laura, and Joe and Joe on a Laos Boat (a very thin wooden canoe--with the tendency to tip, take water and never go straight) pushing our way through rough current to a secluded beach on the other side of the Mekong.

Its so great to meet up with old friends (about one week old, to be exact), both for the stories we share and the catching up we do, and of course the quality time, which is all the time. We loosely set plans to meet up in Vientiane or Vang Vien in Northern Laos at the end of this week. The origianl four of us set off for towns further north. Johanneke and I are going to Champasak to check out another Wat and the Joes are spending the night in Pakse--I think that's the plan.

Its sad to leave good friends--whom I want to travel with--so soon, but I know our paths will, and HAVE to cross in Vang Vieng, or else the universe will explode.