Thursday, August 14, 2008

Made it to Laos!

Quick note here, details to follow....but I made it to Luang Probang, Laos, last night around 6pm. I'll get a post up later tonight or tomorrow morning with more details on the adventure getting here. I'm safe and unscathed, but unfortunately I can't say the same for a few fellow backpackers that were injured. They opted to take the one-day speedboat down the Mekong River, which crashed after striking some floating tree/debris as a result of 50-60 year record river levels here. Luckily my group of 5 decided on the more conservative two-day slow boat and got in last night....slow and steady wins the race after all.

More to come, including pictures of course. Stay tuned!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear you arrived ok...have been watching all the flooding over there and thinking about your white t-shirt not being white much longer.

Love ya,
Car

Anonymous said...

glad to hear you made a excellent choice to take the 2 day route, we looked on the computer so got some details of the incidents --continue to make good choices, mom

Anonymous said...

heading to the state fair today--glad all is well with you--keep us up-dated. all is well here -mornings feel like fall. thanks love mom