Lucky Visits the Plain of Jars

Lucky and Eeyore on The Plain of Jars

Lucky and Eeyore on The Plain of Jars

We took a bus trip to see some stuff. It was a lot bumpier than Zippy. People were throwing up into little bags. We got there in the dark. There was a rat in our room. It ran across the bed. The next morning we went into the country with some nice people we met at the sleeping place.

There were all these big things made out of rock. In Laos they call the place the Plain of Jars. I got to look at the jars and saw myself in the water. Lorenz and Alex from Germany laughed. The other two nice people from England were Will and Jo. They introduced me to Eeyore. He is in a famous book called Winnie the Pooh, who is a bear. Eeyore is not a bear. He is a donkey. He is the nice people’s traveling companion. Just like me! We had a visit about our travels. He has his own web page. http://travellingeeyore.wordpress.com/ He doesn’t have to share one with his people, like I do.

Then we took the same bus back to Zippy. It was another bouncy, twirly ride in the mountains. It’s a good thing I don’t get bus sick.

The next day Claire got sick. She ate a sandwich with lettuce. Bob threw his lettuce away. She had to go to the bushes. We stopped before the sun was overhead. She was very sick. I was worried. She was worse than the people on the bus. We didn’t know what to do: As Eeyore would say, “Oh well, nothing to be done.”

But, I comforted her. Bob went out to get her sodas, which she couldn’t drink. Bob drank BeerLao to cheer himself up. We both tried to get her to drink, but it didn’t work very well. She went to sleep. This morning she could sip a little. We rode until after noon. We had two stops for cold sodas, and only one for the bushes. Bob kept yelling, “Stop pedaling!” I never heard him say that before. He always says, “Pedal harder!”

The exercise was good because she is better now. She drinks. She is happy to have to pee. We are all happy now. I think we are going to dinner.

Lucky and His Mirror

Lucky and His Mirror

Luang Prabang; World Heritage Site

Here are some photos from a morning walk around Luang Prabang. It is a World Heritage Site for the French Colonial architecture. We found much of that architecture degraded, but the town is very lively. Looking at the pictures, we are obviously more into people and food than architecture!

Sun Umbrellas

Sun Umbrellas

Text Messaging

Text Messaging

Fish Market

Fish Market

Interesting Food!

Interesting Food!

First Breakfast

First Breakfast

Morning Ferry Unloading in Luang Pabang

Morning Ferry Unloading in Luang Prabang

The Tunnel

In Southern Yunnan, we had over twenty tunnels on one stretch of fairly new highway. They ranged from 200 meters to nearly four kilometers (around two and a half miles). One small problem: many of them had few or no lights. Try doing that with one of those little LED headlights with weak AAA batteries. Potholes are my greatest fear; you can only see reflective material.

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My Guaranteed Diet

Ride a heavily loaded tandem bicycle across several 15,000 foot passes and innumerable others at slightly lower levels. Then eat mostly rice and noodles, and get sick of both!

I weigh the same as I did in High School, but about fifteen pounds of muscle have just disappeared! The loose skin bothers me, but I am now on a concerted effort to eat as much of anything as possible and in particular protein. Wish me luck!

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