2006 vagabonding summary – Southeast Asia

I decided to attempt to compile my entire Southeast Asia adventure into a single mega-post. Its a long one, and comes across as a bragging session (which it is of course) so consider yourself warned. I have also started a series called “Newbie Tales” with much greater detail on my writings page here: www.gregoryrodgers.com/writings.html. Enjoy!

You will get wet on this ride.

I remember when I was a kid and going to 6 flags amusement parks about half way into the crazy 1KM long lines for water rides there would be signs that read “You will get wet on this ride”. There was no sign like that for the fast boat from Luang Prabang to Thailand or [...]

I am rich in Laos!

I have news to report…I am now officially a millionaire!! Well, in Laos anyways. Before anyone comes rushing to be my new best friend, I went to the currency exchange today and got US $100 worth of Kip, which totalled 1,0296,500 KIP. That means I actually have over a million of some countries currency. Now [...]

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