Linz Loner time in Nong Khai

Across the border from Vientiane I have finally figured out where Mac was for that year in Thailand teaching Calculus and swing lessons in 2000 - my senior year of highsschool. I snuck into his old cafe and spied the German cafe owners who he was fond of, I even walked eccentrically to locate the "big white school" in town. This town for me hasn't brought me avid students of swing but instead has become my respite to cure my sniffling nose in an oasis of recently flooded Mekong promenades. Today I ate my first bite of cheese in a week - this is a life record and a good sign that I am on the mends. I'm staying at a jolly guesthouse where I've adopted a Malaysian Australian who is a first time traveler and follows me on my bike through the rice paddies like I am his white haired guru. We saw the sculpture garden today - and a mummy. The man who decided to build enormous buddhist, dogs riding motorcycles and hindu sculptures out of cement in the late 70s in the middle of jungle on the border w/ Laos, also decided to mumify himself and place his body in a bubble with the base covered in blinking christmas lights. Nothing could top this experience, so I decided to spend most of the afternoon feeding giant catfish who hurled their bodies out of the water for my pellets.
If you're wondering Dan and I are taking this time to recenter our selves so that we can come back together and be stronger than ever = linz loner time.

Love Linz