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Phonsovan, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Sunday, Jun 04, 2006

Welfless !!!

David Murray
2007-03-04 09:59:25

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/>We met up for one last dinner. Welf had been running around town seeing if there were any planes going to Vientiane, but no one was able to tell him. We got so much different info, that he thought the best thing to do was to just catch the bus and miss out on the Plain of Jars. We found a restaurant, cracked the Beer Lao's as this was going to be our last night with Welf, and ate shit food. At the end of the meal, the owner came over and gave us a bottle of home brewed cherry wine. He pulled out four shot glasses, and he told us how communism was good and that he had studied in Budapest. He also said that the bottle was on the house. The kind of price we like !!! He also brought out some marinated cherries that the wine was made from. As soos as you bit in to them, a huge hit of alcohol would come out. I was getting pissed eating !!! So, we asked for another as it was only fifty cents. The owner declined to join us for the second, and halfway throufh, Welf dropped out as he had an early morning bus to catch. We finished the wine and beers, said our goodbyes, and then it happened. In some stages of our lives, we have been harmless, legless, and now we were Welfless !!! We now needed a new sucker to hang on to !!! But one good thing would come out of this, we would now not be drinking anymore beer !!!

Beer Lao's Drunk - 4
Beer Lao's Total - 40

We met the group, had some breakfast and then took off. We went to the old Hmong village first. It was a fair drive, and not long after we were pulling up. As we walked towards the village, a thought came over me. I have been to see the Hmong people in V N before, but this time, I felt like an intruder. Maybe I am finally becoming mature !!! We walked in and around. Various stilt houses were being supported by the missile cases. There was a huge fence made of them and they were also being used as long flower troughs. ...