Salavan December 28
I went roughly 70-80km today, depending on who you talk to. The whole way, people had vastly differing estimates of how much farther I had to go, often differing by 20km.
I’ve decided if I’m going to get in an accident, I’d rather it be with a car, or god forbid, a bus, rather than a rock or a ree. Because a tree can’t take you to the hospital.
I traded some bananas with some boys with slingshots for some tamrind. They conned me a bit, as not all were ripe, but they were still really good. It reminded me of Savoy and snow and Katie and Stephanie, which made me really happy.
At first one of the boys simply asked if I would give him a banana. And I was about to, but decided he had to ask “May I have a banana, please?”, which he refused to do, even repeating after me.
Then one of his friends offered me a tamrind pod, so I traded each of them a banana for three tamrind pods. Which they seemed to think was a great deal, as did I, because I had some tamrind, and got rid of some of my huge bunch of bananas.