You know, I never realized how much bandwidth gmail ate up until traveling in a country like Laos where bandwidth really is a premium. Good lord. I am highly annoyed. It takes forever for gmail to load here. Even when I use the basic html settings. I just wanted to share that minor complaint with you. Now back to your regularly scheduled blogging.

As a side note: I'm probably going to leave Luang Prabang for the capital Vientiane tomorrow. I'll decide in the morning. I met a man who works for the UNDP Mission in Vientiane who asked I look him up when I arrive in the capital. Since I'll be doing the Young Turks on Tuesday night after the election I think it will be interesting to get the opinions of folks who work for the UN on the election. Not to mention I need to collect my Vietnamese and Cambodian visas there as well. And I'd rather do it this week than next. So, if I'm not around, rest assured I'm on a chicken bus somewhere, with a local sleeping on one shoulder and goats, chickens and bags of rice clogging up the aisles. Somethings are just too priceless.