Couchfish Day 60: Sam Neua

After our dirt–throwing efforts of the previous evening, the four of us arrange to meet early at the bus station. There’s a nine am departure, but the other’s guesthouse owner said there was an earlier bus, so we meet at 6 am. There isn’t an earlier bus.

We spend three hours hanging out in the back of a noodle shop near the bus station. Time passes slow.…