Laos

What did you do when you went to Laos? Did you spend days, weeks? Do you have a photo to post?

I went for two weeks in 1999 and think about it far more than most two week periods of my life

the border crossing from thailand, near vientianne, is a great place. they switch from driving on the left to the right
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4Tm4vQKta6A/Tpls2qy2DvI/AAAAAAAAAjc/p92FB0nGr-U/s1600/13+Laos.jpg

motored around on the bolaven plateau for about a week, floated down the mekong and drank lao-lao, wandered through markets in vientiane, biked on paths between rice patties, and climbed steps to chill-out spots mostly. very nice memories.

Thanks to LBJ and Nixon, Laos is most heavily bombed country on earth, but records were made to be broken.

i bet this will lead to a great conversation about laos

American politicians are the only species that have had any influence on the last seventy years of Earth's existence.

just among the biggest slimy fucks

"bombs" as "influence"

The president did not expressly apologize for what the United States did to Laos during the CIA's so-called "secret war" there. But what he said will be taken as an apology by those prone to deliberately misinterpreting his remarks. He also promised another $90 million over the next three years to help the Laotians with finding and detecting unexploded ordnance in the country.

This is not an apology. This is an acknowledgement that this huge country made war so ferociously in that little country that we are still killing its citizens today.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a48369/obama-laos/

but hey there were other influences