Dog... It's what's for breakfast...

The past few days we have had some bike problems and found ourselves in some interesting situations. Let me paint a picture for you... It's 7 p.m., it's raining, we have no headlights and I just ran out of gas (I don't think I have ever run out of gas with anyone more than I have with Leland...) and we are in the middle of nowhere. As we are trying to tie our headlamp to the front of one of the bikes a guy comes up and says he can take us to somewhere close to sleep and eat. Awesome. Lucky lucky. The next morning we wake up to some sounds of death right outside of our door...

Turns out it was true... I thought it was a chicken though.

Nothing like a good old blow torch to get some cookin' done...

Check that blade out. That's for murder.

A little less cute now...

This guy is gettin' worried... better start being useful...

Before we left the family we stayed with asked us if we were hungry... Not so much anymore... Thanks though.

So... tried to wake up and get an early start today... day 5 -ish... which we did. Then around 11 am we have a little run-in with the 5-0. They check our papers, passports, visas, and drivers licenses' and everything checked out... so they wrote us a ticket for missing a mirror and tried to charge us 500,000 VND (approx $25 USD). We only had around 337,00 VND so they took all but the 37,000 (about enough for a bottle of water). Luckily a little down the road I found about 200,00 VND in my pocket because about twenty minutes later my bike blew up as I was told these old Minsks like to do. So now we are in some random town just waiting for a new engine.... just watched a cockfight though...dope. Bout to run back over there and throw fifty-thou on the one with no neck feathers... you know he's been around...

Check the new whip...

get some...

Turns out its winter in Northern Vietnam... cold and no sun. Heading south in search of some warm weather.... Checked out Ha Long bay on the new bikes, but it was too foggy to see much, but worth the trip back in the summer... Looks gorgeous!

Let me break this down for you here:

Water: 3,000 Kip ($.40)

Beer: 8,000 Kip ($1.00)

Fifth of whisky: 10,000 Kip ($1.30)

I'm in the right place here...

Headed to Vietnam where I hear that it makes Laos look expensive. Looking to buy some old Minsks and head south down the coast... Ill keep you posted....

We came to Laos on Christmas Eve and tubed the infamous "Tubing in the Laos" river. It was a complete mess of bars, techno, drunks, rope swings, slides and anything that generally goes along with getting drunk on a river. (YouTube "Tubing on the Laos" and get the cyber experience). Some people have been doing this for months... It was an epic Christmas and New Years in this touristy town where you can find and do absolutely anything you want. Not to mention the terrain is completely gorgeous with huge mountains, amazing caves with underground lakes .... some creeeepy swimming. Let me tell you. We had a blast, but then moved north to Laung Prabang which was much more chilled out. Highlight: At the night market you can fill an entire plate of food, piled high as you want for 10,000 kip (approximately $1 USD). Awesome.

Most amazing waterfall Ive seen on the trip... you can walk along the ledge, looking down thousands of feet to where the water pools and overflows and pools and overflows with the most amazing tropical blue Ive ever seen in freshwater. (Lang Prabang)

On the way to one of the underground caves the "road" is a about a foot wide dirt path through the rice fields on the outskirts of town. Water buffalo everywhere... And that bamboo bridge a little sketchy on the scoot scoot.

The best view... still on my bucketlist....

Before the water falls...

Most unbelievable. Most beautiful.