Connect the dots

My trip back to Mae Sot from Vientiane was something like this:

Local tuk tuk to bus station (10min) to another tuk tuk to Thai/Lao border (1 hr) to T/L Friendship bridge border shuttle (15min) to the wrong Lao shuttle, which would have me head back to Lao (10min) to local tuk tuk (10min) to private van to Udon Thani airplane (1 hr) to Bangkok (1 hr) to local airport shuttle (10 min) to the local 551 bus (1hr, heavy traffic) to taxi to haul my ass in traffic to bus terminal (30min), miss bus, wait 2 hrs for next bus to Mae Sot (8hrs) to mototaxi (5min). Home, in 18hrs.
That gave me enough time to digest all the croissants, baguettes, and other mysterious but delicious fried goodies I ate all weekend.


sweet corn dumpling waffles. and rice doughy fried yummy with coconut surprise.

the Vientiane's Arc de Triomphe.