July 8th, 2015
Update!!!!!!!!
The desk guy brought me my passport! Omg…..I’m so grateful. I guess it doesn’t mean the scooter mafia won’t still come after us, we do have another 15hours here, but at least I have my passport.
Mom, I promise PINKY SWEAR to never go up a dirt lane again, especially one that runs along a creek. So perhaps it only cost me an extra 200,000 kip ($25 usd) on top of the $40 for the bikes and 50,000 kip ($6.25) for gas, which we didn’t use hardly any of. I gave the very kind kids who let us ride back with them 100,000 kip to offset their 160,000 kip ride. They were very insistent on NOT taking it, but I insisted they take it! I had to force them actually. So hopefully they have a beer or two tonight on us and think about how nice they were to us. I did have to tell them about the tuk tuk full of the Undisclosed nationality that refused us, to make them understand WHY I was so grateful. They were gobsmacked! Yes I know that’s twice I’ve used that word in my blog in the last few days.
The tuk tuk driver was mad I gave them money. He kind of got on me about it. We think it’s bcz he thought I wasn’t going to also give him money. Yes, I had every intention of giving him money too. He charged me 100,000 kip for the ride in, so he made out VERY well today. That was 20,000 kip more than the first kind tuk tuk driver was going to charge me, before his passengers said “no”. Not over that…..can you tell?
Ok, got a photo….yikes eh? So you can see then condition of the “road” on the left there! Barely qualifies as anything, and this was a “dotted line” on the map. We all know what a dotted line means right? It means DON’T DO IT!!!! Hahahahahaha. It may have been just fine other than that goofy creek getting in my way. Why do theses things happen to me? 😩😩 Cuz I’m out there livin’ life! 😳😳
