In the front of the boat in the blue is the captain of our long boat. He’s supposed to be behind me. Behind him is the dock where I thought we were supposed to land. We stopped moving, but we were definitely not at the dock. Instead, we hit a sandbar. The local Rotarians were using bamboo sticks to push us, and the captain waded into the Mekong River to finally get us unstuck.

The trip to Laos by longboat was a bit more exciting than what we saw when we got over there (the same cheap shopping as night markets in Thailand). But I must hand it to the Thais; longboats are quite the ingenious design. The ride is amazing smooth even when handling the wake of a barge. You just need to make sure there’s water under them.

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