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After our adventures in northern Laos, it was time to head back to Thailand.

We asked our friend Mr. Oath to meet us at the Thai/Lao border.  Since photography in the border zone is forbidden, I didn’t get any photos of him picking us up, and quite frankly I was so happy to see him after all that time that I totally forgot about taking any photos for the blog.  We got into his friend’s car and headed to Udon Thani.

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On the way to visiting a Lao village, our guide told us that the trucks carrying huge logs were on their way to Vietnam.

We saw quite a few of these over-loaded logging trucks on the road that day.

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Continuing with our series on our recent Thailand/Laos trip, we’re going to show you some other interesting sites in Xiengkhuang Province.

This is Wat Phiawat, otherwise known as the “Chief of Temples.”  This temple was used for royal ceremonies, and not only was the biggest temple in Xiengkhuang town, it was also the oldest.  Wat Phaiwat was completely destroyed by bombs during the war.

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BROL member Gunnstein came to Taiwan for a visit.  One of the things on his agenda was to visit TW-Bents and pick up a new Cobra recumbent bicycle.

This slightly-out-of-focus shot is the meeting of Gunnstein (left) and Walter, the TW-Bents design engineer.  They are exchanging business cards.

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Continuing with our series on our 2010 Thai/Lao trip, we visited the Plain of Jars, site #1.

But, as promised, we’re going to show you where we stayed, first.

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