Day 2: Vang Vieng, Laos. This is the most chill place on Earth, I tell ya. Where else can you can lay down sprawled out like a dead man at a crime scene, decked out at a coffee shop slash restaurant (“video bar”) in shorts and a tank top, get served by beautiful people, and watch dozens of reruns of Friends like it’s nobody’s business? We’re live from Laos!

So you might ask why the hell are you doing all these Western things in the middle of the Orient?

I must admit – day 2 of the trip and I’m at a coffee shop watching TV and having greasy pizza. Yes, even backpackers miss home sometimes. Around travel days, your full day is shot being lazy and coping with being human. You have to rest to be energized for the rest of your travels.

Travel mix up. The reason for this rush is I told the lady at Air Asia to book me to Vietnam and she booked me to Vientiane, Laos! We changed our whole travel plans but I think our plan B is going to work; just a lot of rushing through the first sites because I’m on a visa pinch.

Ok, enough depressing news – here’s an unrelated picture riding around in the city. There are tons of motorbikes here!