Travel thoughts Laos

I love travelling, this is in our human instinct to be humble for new places, it fulfills me with so much joy waking up in a new place, ready for a great adventure

Empty airport, totally

Everything smells new at Vientiane airport

Many big cars, seems to be a lot more expensive than Cambodia, what did I get for $5 in Phnom Penh and what do I do in Vientiane

Taxi from Airport same price as 3hr bus drive

Vientiane so much more developed than Phnom Penh, way less rubbish, many many new shiny cars everywhere, way less scooter, more expensive, no chaos traffic, all a lot civilized, maybe even more than Bangkok in Vientiane

Almost only huge new pick ups everywhere... am I in Australia? Do they get cheap loans for cars?

Everything is more expensive than Cambodia, similar to Thai prices

The most dead capitol I have been to in my entire life, it is Friday 10pm, and the only street that has bars is not even 1/3 full, nobody on the street just brand new cars driving, many luxurious buildings and hotels, what is going on with this city?

Least livable city in the world?

Big big contrast to Cambodia the last days, but very interesting to see how life can be entirely different 500kms from each other

So extremely close to Thailand, only river is the border

Why is nobody smiling back? What is wrong with the people being in such a bad mood in my hostel? Is it the city, making people depressed?

Most crappy shower ever in hostel, even the free ones on the road were a lot better

Why did I book my bus so late? Lots of time to kill in boring temples full of Chinese, nothing else to do in Vientiane...

The first tour buses arrived and so all the Chinese people have a photo shooting in front of Palais Presidential making it a highlight of their trip

When they come home that is what their family expects from them, presenting the photos from their trip

The very special way Chinese do tourism (and how annoying it can be)

The mango crumb cake is softly warm and tastes like heaven! Also the ice coffee was lovely strong and tasty, Joma cafe is great!

Many French in Laos, cheaper Visa?

Laos appeared to be more organized, yet buses are never on time

The Laos country side is so extremely dusty, all the plants (and houses in villages) are covered in dust from road, The highway is the worst in my life so far, always having 100m asphalt following 100m dirt, the driver in the old Toyota Horace with the cracked windscreen not slowing down any bit ripping the shit out of the suspension and throwing stones at the car

In the middle of nowhere, sometimes some jungle villages

Vang Vieng like an oasis in the middle of nowhere

Here is even K-mart?!

Vang Vieng cheap again, about the same as in Cambodia

The paradise, with free drinks, cheap food and tubing, what else do you want?

The rain in the jungle can be heavy and is extraordinary

The streets with the mountains in the background are amazing

The rocks and mountains with their formations are so special

The cave which is bigger than any I have ever seen before, seems to never end

No animals, no nothing, turning off the torch standing still in a huge massive cave with no sound, no light, is an incredible experience as you usually can never experience this is in such a big yet confined space

Headlines of scenes of life (as a video graphic element), what is happening at the moment, verbal or written?

This movie describes the effect music can have on life, conversations can, every impression into your ear and eye and their effects can, we human beings are so complex that we developed senses which process these impressions of our environment, creating thoughts and can then answer with reactions

The hebraic guy spinning his towel, showing so much how cultures can be different, it looks so smooth because they are used to do it so frequently but people from other cultures never did it in their life only because they were born in a different place

The very spicy and therefore special fried rice, where did you eat spicy fried rice? Makes it so much better

Start of Alien movie: it looks like you! You can always

We no speak Americano in original is the song I can't shazam but have to remember! Damn so good haha (edit: tu vuo fa l'americano)

The movie about different worlds within your brain like a first person view just making sure that perspective comes from brain, happiness, thinkful, sound-listening, creative, paranoia, focus, feelings/emotions,

Only very few people can share them, how many? Only Lia or more? What if this life really actually a movie is? (Something where everyone uses their phone in a network that is build up by the film company, something where Lia and me are the only person alive with this ability, I probably haven't met anyone else like this, it is like it would be a movie, making the life our longest and best movie, because we appreciate so much, and we will always keep on fighting, coming with "the best song in the world, the best song in the world" (which was played at the time of this thought in bar haha) into the fight against all the rest of the world, as we will change something, something against this concept of life, something were not everyone just lives this normal life with dead in the end, where we encourage more people to do something and eventually create a movement, as we have to many problems in the world, only a big crowd could change something, this would also be a crazy movie idea (if it doesn't become true hahaha).

When your life is like a movie, you can only be truly happy, right? Have you, my little onion ever experienced a life which feels like a movie, I am very sure you did, and I hope you know how valuable this is. This love story is one of the craziest ever. Not just that, the whole roadtrip story is insane, is it then obvious that such a crazy story ends in love? When people get to know each other so well, with so much harmony, does it obviously end up in love and we didn't even have a choice?
I would love to have an autobiographical movie actually hahaha

another example for movie tonight: ask of lighting up joint is crowned with "Seemans" music, every situation has fitting music with it somehow ("the best song in the world with my thoughts about Lia, "tu vuo fa l'americano" , our love to music can be used in movies to portray situations in a better or more dramatic way, definitely gonna be a useful tool for good scenes

Guy talking Hebrea to us, ... everyone is confused, girl looks Hebraic, but she is Croatian

Guy bringing a new lighter, being an angel, to us, solving the problem because people wanted to smoke cigarettes and the joint but the lighter was empty

The people going crazy in the club, how club scenes are in movies, when the people step in, first person scene, everyone drunk, many different characters, situations and constellations you walk by

The girls talked about someone, someone who is having crazy ideas, while she is more often in a funny mood and that is their only weakness,
She argues: "He loves thinking where it is sometimes even for me too much" She is more often in a funny mood whereas he has some crazy ideas

Do you feel in any way like this?

I know for myself, when I look at everything else apart from this -where I don't even know anything because of way less contact at the moment, and I don't know what you think (I am so damn interested! omg)- in >every single< other way they are probably the same, like literally - this...
is the most crazy people can be with each other, where others have hundreds of weaknesses, especially while solo travelling and being able to observe many couples, they only have one minor thing, something were they are different in their mindset (not including small drama scenes, as they are too minor valued haha), >everything else< really every other situation, is the same with those two people, not that they experience the same, but they can talk about it on a level nobody else can, feel empathy for the other person and understand her nobody else can - something I have not seen anywhere else between to people in the world I have traveled so far

Could be also the newest soap where there is an end, but here is the end only the death. Movie as always

Going crazy on the look of money in a movie, a Cambodian child sitting opening folded a $1 -movie scene! It is probably the only money for today's food

Going crazy in the bathroom - psycho movie in first person with the noisy door, crazy paintings and suddenly a jumpscare

I am so excited for our movies böbbis
I enjoy so much coming up with new ideas of situations in my and our lives, it will be such a wunderful rest of our lives, do you know that?

What the fuck has happened tonight? The talk to the isrealic guy about the hebraic country, but then suddenly it was too much at some point, does only Lia understand me?
For her it was never too much, she never was not interested these thoughts, I have to check what is going on with my friends back home, but she might be the only person I have met so far that understands my new kind of thoughts I developed since the time with her

Is pissing next to the temple and unconscious sign that I don't believe in religion, but in destiny? Religion is too made up, there is a power though that controls things that appear to be random

How the Israelic guy was next to me in the bus but we didn't talk because someone else sat next to me to whom I talked to then a lot, later meet in the bar, where we talk crazy shit for hours, is that all done by destiny or random?

Surprise?

The woman coughing in the night, waking up her husband and they have a discussion, he burps, they say two more sentences and go to sleep

The rhythmic way of the rain

So so many people I had crazy talks with yesterday and today, and never see again, not even exchanged social media so no contact ever again in our lives, Silke (bus), Melina (hostel), the American couple (bar), Ido (bar), Bo(hostel), I will never see those people again in my entire life, what an interesting lifestyle travelling represents as these situations are a part of it and probably in no other lifestyle happening because people don't move on that quickly in daily life

Does Lia feel alive these days? I do, but alone as nobody is on this level, is she with her boyfriend?

You feel alive every second when you are aware that you feel, the road is perfect for that, nature is, talks analyzing your feelings and life are, even planes are, moments of rest with only your brain working, wind and rain are (like on the ferry in particular)

Dramatic ludo music, with the thunderstorm, wind, thunder, lightning, rain, also a way of feeling alive

How beautiful nature can be, in so so many ways

What a nightowl I became haha

Have to show Lia "Bleibt alles anders"

So great to walk after the rain, only missing 7eleven hahaha

The kebab place is heaven

The prostitute that grabs me

The dog who is smelling the food but then pisses off again, he knows it's mine

How can there be small dry parts on the street after this rain?

The dump drum sounds, what are they for at 3am in the morning?

How extremely much I miss the gym, this feeling, the compound exercises the most -> next day climbing gave it back!

How amazingly awake you can feel with 5hours of sleep

Found a new hobby today! Rock climbing is so much fun! The human instinct in you in order to get it... text about it?

The woman I met in the bus, having intense talks for hours, the only thing that stays, although giving her my number, is the music recommendation, that is her legacy on me

I am not the person anymore I used to be before I went abroad, experienced so much as I will probably never in 10 years of working

All the crazy conversations underlining that

Rice farmers or tourism industry only possible for locals

Israelic army language like a secret language

Another German girl in bus to talk hours

Koh Rong Samloen must be amazing, so excited and for Kampot

Find your way of life, so many different approaches to life and how people go their path

Live in the present, most important, therefore extreme sports help, for me also beautiful places or even moments with special people

Be authentic in life, that makes you the most happy

What an unbelievable great rest area we stop on the way to Vang Vieng in the mountains, with the cold wind, the strong sun and a view that is absolutely stunning over Laos' mountains

Children are the better humans, they are happy with way less, that's why they are cute and always smiling, their brains don't think far

Locals would like to travel but cannot, how lucky are we?

The one world, without borders, people just being happy and sharing the love, accepting you no matter how you are because we are all from this one world (festival comparison) - too many people are driven by bad that is why it unfortunately can never happen, but globalisation gets it into this direction

Those amazing talks with Pritham and Anna... how? How can you talk so deeply with people just during the day being sober? Am I leading the conversations with my mindset? Always spreading these crazy thoughts, so deep, so good, so connected

How are times so intense while travelling and talks so good? So much inspiring us every day

Bumping into people again and again, world is small

So many tourists crowded in a small night market place to eat

The crazy mountains in the back, like everywhere in Laos probably

There is no point in wiping away tears, they are supposed to flow down, and when you let them, you can feel the strength that they transport, from your eyes, over everything that characterizes your face down to your throat, where they nourish it, give you hope and creating a feeling of being alive, as you are able to feel something, becoming stronger and wiser every day, it is all about that in life, eventually you have to become strong for yourself, completely alone in order to have something to inspire others

Buddhism drums at 5am

Live here in the now, the steps you make through a Laos' town, while living the dream everyone wants to, being barefoot, feeling so alive

I will always keep this way of living, why not experiencing life how it is in other countries, this can give you such an amazing, yet unique world view

For every second I am grateful, every moment I can live this life

The impact on walking because of Ludovico Einaudi

What has happened, empty street, suddenly getting run over by a big pick up, car accident, hit from behind, definitely drunk or something else plus overspeeding, apologizing and being feared of police, giving money and bringing home but not to hospital (too far?!), tuktuk not taking as he doesn't want to go there so late, israelic guys medic, feeling numb, back injury as well, hospital with drug addict English guy, saw the opportunity as I will get painkillers, very cheap, after treatment lots of discussions in Chinese, he got super cheap valium for himself, tablets rolling, free ambulance drive, crashing into van as he took two already two valium, wheelchair falling and playing

The tiny village we stop, houses only made out of wood, no roads, river only way of transportation

Feeling the sun in your face, alive

10hours to be with your own thoughts

Opium is another apparantly natural drug I am interested in, people always compare it with heroin, so is it stronger than many other natural drugs?

Brazilians also told me about ayahuasca - Bucketlist!

Camping and going with the flow of the river

Western countries are the reason for problems, so they have to solve and suffer now

Bananas with seeds and how the world developed the last centuries

Who tells you this is reality? (one of first mine and Pritham's sentences) comes now again. Now with an even even higher intensity of questioning reality as I had a boat tour the last two days, doing basically nothing, into a place I don't know

The great feeling of having an extreme hobby, yet unregular doing it, for example climbing, diving, 4wd, skydiving

Movie scene: the blood circulating, being stuck in food, or in general how a blod cell flows through every arterie into capillary and back through vein

Foot completely swollen and purple, putting it up makes such a difference

Pangea and Utopia were the two top bars on Asia solo trip, interesting names for so special places

Describing life on slow boat trip, (sun)light and how it affected the situationp, between borders, everyone their own table set up doing so many different things, being so different people,

Speedboat and its crazy atmosphere

Contrast on river banks left right different countries

The fear of white pick ups since the accident

Why are lady boys so popular in South East Asia?

Talk with Lia about Portugal, Opium and Valium

The effect of music, what great texts are out there

The weird Chinese wanting to steel the chair for my foot, then sit next to me, being super loud, annoying, also the waitress is very annoyed

Courage, it takes courage to do something, but where do you get it from? You can have it in yourself, but most likely you need someone to cover your back

Talk with alcohol addicted girl on slow boat

Talk with Lia about Bo's alcohol addiction, and what his heritage may have to do with that, vice documentary about alcohol in Uganda, alcohol big part in culture, (everywhere in documentary Bo's big blue cup)

Uganda Alcohol, Zimbabwe Codeine, West Meth, Asia Opium, so many countries have severe drug problems, text about it
 
Talk about Flakka!

Live in the present, not the past

Any purpose of Lia suggesting me Probably me from Sting??? Lyrics so crazy...

Twelve people on the back of the ute

The ue boom in my backpack makes such a good sound, so different

I am gonna see David again in Europe and are probably the most happy person in this town because of it, your dive buddy, someone who is responsible for your life, and you both commit to it so much, you didn't have the chance to meet up as planned for the Yongala, now are finally able to meet up again, probably even more often, how great is this

I'm so interested in Lia's dreams, they must be entirely honest, then can show so much what she really thinks, the dream is the unconscious processing of thoughts and impressions

Ketamine so different drug! So different/opposite than lsd and mdma, still curious for trying it? After reading articles, music seems shit but mirrors must be crazy especially blurring ones

Article: "The truth is, ketamine is an addictive substance; it is up there with heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, PCP and etc." interesting thought about physically addictive drugs and ones which are only psychological

After that article no appear at all in Ketamine somehow haha, would prefer more experiences on psychodelics so much more over anesthetics, opium was nice for the feeling though, but very small dosis, and mainly for the pain relief, nothing I would do in a normal state, no appeal of just narcosing yourself, alcohol already enough numbing

Really would love to try lsd with Lia and in nature with a laptop in the forest, watching the sunset, coming up with nice movie ideas, having our great into space playlist, maybe even on a little hill (Norway???) in Campingchairs, it doesn't always need the Uluru for this magical atmosphere, a dune or hill, sitting on it and watching the sunset with normal mountains is maybe enough, never come to the level of the Rock in the middle of nowhere for hundreds of kilometres though, but could be a great setting for trying acid, looking over a forest

Plan mdma trip if ever want to do it again (or was it perfect this one time?)

How great the drop in the Trauma song actually is building up and then finally comes, several smaller ones before but the big one is really good

The relaxed tunes from BarHow? perfect for a chilled morning, slow start into a great day

The mosquito net

The steps

The zip lines

The development of social connections

The fog in the morning all over the jungle, with even small raindrops

The bamboo in the jungle with its crazy formations

The steep hikes and the pain which is just in the brain

The high treehouse, what a life do I live?

The amazingly good food

Our guide who is in such a funny mood today

How well setup everything is, tap water, zip lines, safety food, beds, mosquito nets, even electricity

The perfect day in the jungle, hiking in the morning, relaxing after lunch, in comfy and high treehouse, zip lining

The crazy life of people living in those villages

Nice festival memory, still so intense

The animal in the roof freaking me (and Hugo) out

How the old bandage looks like

The mosquito net cave

The feeling of a cave (darkness, closed up)

Edge to edge connection, connecting every country with each other, forming one consequent middle part, all agreeing on to be their government

What would the world be without so many people checking for their three main valuables, phone, wallet, key?
Without valuables even existing because we as humans don't need much for life, why do we make it so complicated? Only because we like the advantages from valuable things? Why is it not enough to be a human (like on tanglewood e.g.) without any valuables making you any richer and therefore better? Greed is in everyone, selfish, surviving thinking

Freaking out when hearing rats noises, covering smell of oreos with deodorant

They are bats! Ask guides?

Rat coming in, what do I do, how do I kill her? Just punching hard on head? Next day where to cook it? Would love to try some rat again, the one from country side tasted so nicely like chicken, but more intense

Hearing big nightactive animals

Hearing the bats flying around the treehouse, insects as well, nightlife is so interesting, especially when closely and longer listening, can actually focus on the different sounds of so many different animals and insects

Bat and rat on my mosquito net, just flying and landing the whole time

Life straw, buy?

Sometimes raindrops

Bats make sound over and over again, do they want my food or the phone light?

I can literally not believe this is my life right now, this is where I am and what I'm doing at the moment, holy fuck did I ever think I would be at this point with this experience and mindset and situation one year ago?

Feeling so alive, yet in such a different way

Without phone or torch complete darkness and no way around it, must be a crazy feeling to be trapped in darkness, cave and this experience underline

Sleeping in the highest treehouse from gibbonexperience and so in the highest of the world

What a perfect tour this was, great food, people and nature and so much fun, so happy to do it

Journalism

Rubbish

Thai border date mistake, deportation possible if not noticed, one job but fuck it up