30 stories tagged An Lao

I can't push out these entries fast enough, and some just aren't big enough to warrant their own entry. So I'm going to start consolidating some of my thoughts into...

I wrote in my earlier entry about the food and what I had discovered. What I wrote was only part of the picture. It's a far more complicated and layered reality than I...

I awoke from my jungle nap sometime around 4. I had, at this point, given up on keeping up with things as trivial as time. A handful of things were important here: was...

The Constant Epicurean, Ep 42, Eating Charred rat while reflecting in the Jungle. In this edition, well, I think it speaks for itself.

I was awoken by the roosters, almost coughing out their morning crows. They struggled, it seemed, to outperform their neighbors. It was keeping up with the Joneses,...

We arrived at the homestead just before dark. It had been my first time on a motorbike here, and it was exhilarating. We had wound down a dirt jungle path and crossed a...