A Little Tid Bit of the Bus Ride

Here is a little snippet from the Hanoi-Vientiane bus. All the foreigners (6 of us in all) were sitting in the wayyyyyy back of the bus, and were barackaded in by these bales and boxes of miscellaneous stuff. It took some serious manouvering to get over this hurdle to go to the bathroom, take a stretch, or get some food. I took this picture while we were waiting for the Laos border to open. We got there a few hours early, so just sat around trying our hardest to sleep. I was not fully prepared for the journey as a few of the other backpackers were. My pillow consisted of a nice crunchy bag of banana chips which I purchased in Hanoi. As the journey continued, the pillow slowly deflated as we passed around provisions. This man is the bus driver, who came back to the foreigner baracade during the wait and had a little nap. Most of our seats did not recline (broken.) In front of the foreigner baracade was where all the locals got to sit in non-bouncy and reclineable seats.