Life moves slowly in this quiet area of Laos. These are some of the examples:

Men love to pull up their shirt to expose round, squishy, non-segmented bellies, especially during bocce ball time.

Some girls respond favorably to my smile, and others look away. I wish I knew what they talk about.

It’s never hard to find cats chillin’, and that pug had just pulled his blunted nose out of the other dog’s butt.

She was singing a song to the evening and swaying gently. Cute.