So I decided to get off the beaten track a little while I was in Laos, you know do the whole adventerous trip to the chineese border through the middle of nowhere. Anyway when we got there we weren't able to do so much because there was all kinds cats and dogs falling out of the sky. I should have known this was going to happen given that its rainy season up there. I did come across this mineral water chineese beer, made with mineral water of all things. Its not the greatest beer in the world, it could be the reason the chineese aren't famous for there drunken devilry. But I drank it anyway and decided to get out of town.
This would be around the point where things started getting adventerous, the roads are just on the side of a hill so overnight landslides covered the road every couple of kilometers. The place was a mess. Our driver was a very opptimistic guy and kept pushin on through. But it all came to a halt at this little obsticle.... 
....ya thats our tuk tuk truck going nowhere in the mud. Got stuck there for an hour or two, knee deep in mud trying to push this peice of crap out of the crap. Quick note that the Laos guys in the back of the truck decided not to help in case they got dirty or wet, cheers guy's, well done.
But we got the thing going in the end and hit the road again, solid optimism from the driver. We did hit another landslide and got stuck again, but this time we where all dirty and wet already and manage to get the thing moving a bit quicker. Our brute strength and a Toyota Hilux combined forces to get us out of the mud. I don't think we even needed the Hilux, in fact I could of done it on my own, with one finger. Anyway the drivers optimism finally took a crushing blow when we came around the bend to see this. The road completly washed out, women and children first. 
That little diagnol thing on the right is some poor Laotian home, the whole village got completely flooded out, once again what a mess.
After the quick boat trip I hitched back into Luang Nam Tha, So that was Day 1 over.
Day 2 didn't start so positively, I couln'td take a boat down the Nam Tha river because the water was too high. This would have got me to my destination of Huach Xai on the Thai border. An even quicker way would have been to get a bus but the road was so badly washed out that a bus wouldn't be running for another 2 weeks. Luang Nam Tha is nice but its not two weeks in the rain nice so I decide to risk backtrackin to Luang Prabang, Laos 2nd biggest city where hopefully I can find a way out of the country. So I get on a bus and after 45 minutes the driver decides to floor it through a mudslide, the bus slips and wee go of road pop a tire and are officially stuck again. This time a truck pulls us free and were on our way again. Heres the boys doing a quick fix on the wheel, nothing stops these boys, gotta love um.
Day 2 ends after a very long and bumpy bus ride to Luang Prabang.
Day 3. I get on a boat to Pak Beng, the seats are a plank of wood, 9 hours + my skinny ass and no pampers makes shanes toshy sensitive. But the views are pretty nice, so its hard to complain.
Day 4. Pretty much the same as day3, more wooden seats and lack of food on the boat, views are still nice though. 
We manage to dock at Huach Xai at 6.15 p.m. the border closes at 6p.m, so close but yet so far. I can see the checkpoint on the other side of the river. So I spend the night in the border town where Thai sex tourist's come to get even cheaper sex than Thailand, I know this because I was in the room next the one particular tourist.
Day 5. I make it to Chiang Kong, Thailand. Its only a couple of 100 Km's from Muang Sing to Chiang Kong but I took my time, although I didn' have a choice. One of the reasons I came here was to meet a guy called Oa who does bamboo tattoo's out of the Teepee Bar, I got the recomendation from Bean so I follow it up. Using these simple directions from Bean, Chiang Kong, Teepee Bar, Oa, and I found him pretty quickly. Its hard to miss a teepee when your walking through town. So I came back later that night to get a tattoo done from a drunk guy in a Teepee.
He even let me keep the stick of bamboo as a souvenir. That night, I couldn't sleep, I don't know why but I got thinking. I always planned to go to Chiang Mai for a few weeks before going home but suddenlty I decided to shove that plan and go back to Koh Pha Nang.
Day 6. After 2 hours sleep I get on a bus to Bangkok. 14 hours later I'm there. I get the craziest moto ride of life, the guy must have been colour blind cause he ran every light in the city. I spend a total of 3 hours there and get a bus ticket south. I also get dinner at KFC this wasn't because I'm a KFC fanatic but more because it was kind of a novelty, I hadn't seen a fast food joint in 2 months. Capitalism, you gotta love it.
Day 7. It feels good to be back on the islands.
