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Borders, buses, boats and back aches

Its getting dark in the back of an old Thai bus as we make our way through the northern mountains to the Laos border on the Mekong river. The sunsets on the mountains, beautiful pink and red light illuminates the clouds from every angle. The bus seems to be barely making it up these bumpy roads and I'm growing tired of the ride as we have been riding buses since nine in the morning. Darkness falls and the stars appear. Starring up at the foreign constellations I reflect on the journey. My mind wanders between Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Canada, family, friends. It feels like I have never done anything but what I am doing now, but still it only been a couple months. We arrive at our destination, The border closes at 6 PM and we have arrived hours late. We stay the night in a guest house for about 5 dollars and cross in the morning. Arriving on the other side of the Mekong river we pull our heavy packs out of the long Asian boats and head up the hill towards immigration. Apparent