Laos road trip

[MeMock]

They are plantations Nawty and we are replanting.

[Nawty]

Well thats ok then....are you sure you do not sneak into the forest over the boundary and just chop down 1 or 2 proper ones ?

[MeMock]

Nah, there are none left!

[JoeMoer]

They are plantations Nawty and we are replanting.

You own a farm in laos or is this a xtian thing?

[the dogcatcher]

Brill pix!

[Wayne Kerr]

Great stuff mate, you full time in that part of the world these days? Anyway, where you selling the agar into? Know it is big in China and Vietnam but thought it was a bit hard to sell into most places due to CITES related restrictions.

Dont know why my skype icon is offline, but I'm always online.

If you're referring to your Skype icon on TD, think you may have to adjust your settings in Skype. Tools>Options>Privacy Settings & then check "Allow my status to be shown on the web"

[Rhodie]

MeMock great report & cracking pix.
Many thanks for posting.
I love Paxse and the islands are a great place to chill out and ride a bike.
from a film my then 14 yr old made of a trip through Laos & Cambo
Biking Down the Mekong - Day 3 from Rhodie on Vimeo.

DogCatcher - still awaiting the promised happy ending....

more like a sheepless ending!

[SiamRick]

Very good reading and pix, MeMock. Write as much as you want. E.g. would be interesting to know a bit more about the wood and the farm. Or point me to an earlier thread. Thanks.

[MeMock]

You own a farm in laos or is this a xtian thing?

We lease a farm. xtian? Do you mean Christian?

Brill pix!

Thank you kind sir!

Great stuff mate, you full time in that part of the world these days? Anyway, where you selling the agar into? Know it is big in China and Vietnam but thought it was a bit hard to sell into most places due to CITES related restrictions.

Living full time in Thailand at the moment but semi regular trips to Loas are happening to keep an eye on things. Have only sold within Laos at the moment but slowly ramping things up to hopefully hit other markets.

MeMock great report & cracking pix.
Many thanks for posting.

Cheers!

Very good reading and pix, MeMock. Write as much as you want. E.g. would be interesting to know a bit more about the wood and the farm. Or point me to an earlier thread. Thanks.

Thanks SR. The wood has been talked about elsewhere so will try and dig out the thread(s).

Hopefully this thread will resume in the next day or two as soon as I get organised!

[MeMock]

Have got myself organised but photobucket is dragging the chain. Next part of the trip will be posted as soon as they are back online.

[MeMock]

Is anyone else having trouble with photobucket? I can log in and move around everywhere apart from my actual photos.

[chitown]

This pic reminds me of the office girls walking to work in the Loop in Chitown

[MeMock]

Were they cute or just pigs?

[chitown]

pigs

[Marmite the Dog]

Is anyone else having trouble with photobucket?

I've noticed a few threads sans photos, so I guess I am.

[MeMock]

Been a few days now. Getting a bit annoying.

[Nawty]

Yeah....see what happens when TD cannot provide a decent upload formula.....one day it will bite him in the arse when all the photos in dozens of threads are gone and threads left Empra tuddish like.

[MeMock]

I remember trying to use the TD photo system years ago when I first started posting pics but my little brain could not handle the complexity compared to the ease of Photobucket (when it bloody works!)

[Nawty]

I agree, almost every other site has an easier system than TD for uploading pics.

TD is very photo unfriendly.

Thing is, if you rearrange your photos on Photobucket after you have linked to TD...you screw up the link and the thread is then useless without pics...so TD's loss really.....h and theoretically links are not allowed anyway.

[the dogcatcher]

Photobucket crashes my puter.

[MeMock]

Just recently or all the time?

I still cannot access my account.

[the dogcatcher]

All the time.
Wanted to use it for my Laos thread.
I really must finish that piece.

[MeMock]

It used to crash my safari browser but it has always worked fine with firefox.

[MeMock]

PB is now working again.

At the end of part four we had arrived at the farm and had spent the afternoon getting the harvest ready to begin the following day.

Early the next morning we were back at the farm after organising two motorbikes for Dad and Des to have for the day so that they could go out exploring. They dropped in on us at the farm before they hit the road. There bikes were left over from the Vietnam war (well not really but they rode like they were 40 years old we were told!)

As I didn’t go with them I cannot really comment on what they got up to. All I know is that went up to the border crossing with Vietnam and then took some back roads for a bit of exploring. Here are some of their photos.

[MeMock]