- IMG 6368
- IMG 6335
- IMG 6348
various views from elephant-back - IMG 6406
- IMG 6411
Nansi uses the miserable bumpy truck ride back to the city to unbraid her hair. - IMG 6445
The clowns... - IMG 6381
Sin - IMG 6367
- IMG 6416
Lessons in 7 kinds of basil. - IMG 6428
Notice how no one wants to get too close to their pan. - IMG 6511
Golden triangle map (where Thailand, Burma, and Laos meet) at the Opium museum - IMG 6433
Catie and Leslie - IMG 6316
Mmmmm - IMG 6338
All of a sudden this grass was everywhere, and I thought I was in someone's backyard in Texas. - IMG 6431
Ingredients. I would cook Thai food all the time if I had a staff bustling around to prep everything for me. - IMG 6215
a really old teak tree - IMG 6321
Sin helps us beat the heat with leaf fans and a stylish hat. - IMG 6339
Our elephants approach. - IMG 6369
Catie on the raft - IMG 6429
That's why. - IMG 6432
Curry-making - IMG 6331
We take our first (quick) bamboo raft trip. - IMG 6414
Leslie photographs her filth before the shower. - IMG 6228
loom-weaving - IMG 6341
Nansi boards the elephant. - IMG 6258
flower necklace at night's end - IMG 6518
Some giant gate thing that means: "Look, over there, it's Laos!" - IMG 6358
I quickly overcame my reluctance for stepping on heads. Her neck made an excellent footrest. - IMG 6311
Catie in her smoking hot headlamp - IMG 6380