Today marks four months of my trip and two weeks of solo traveling! Wow I am so grateful for this amazing experience. Honestly the past two weeks solo traveling has been some of my favorite of the whole trip. I've met so many cool, new people and really love the north of Thailand. It's so interesting how I did not like the south of Thailand due to the type of people it attracted but the north attracts much more like minded people to me. I believe it is due to the nature aspect and more adventurous things to do. In Chiang Rai I have a great, social hostel. Choosing the right hostel really can make or break the experience of a city. Today I had a very very chill day. I worked out in the morning and figured out my plans for Laos. I learned today that some counties in Southeast Asia need printed visa photos. I went and got my photo taken for the Laos visa. The guy who took my pictures gave me a package for Vietnam and Cambodia visa too. Different countries have different visa photo dimension requirements. I never knew this. In the afternoon I was about to walk to the blue temple alone. While I was leaving I ran into a Dutch girl I met in Pai who was checking into my same hostel. I waited for her and we went to a sunset spot where there were sheep grazing about! It was nice. After watching the sunset we ran into a group from our hostel. A French couple, two Germans and an American. We all went to the blue temple which was beautiful and super abstract. After the blue temple the hostel had karaoke night at Chiang Rai social club. I sang Despacito, chicken fried, and good 4 you. I love karaoke and a little known fact about me is I've sang karaoke in many countries! Iceland live performance, South Korea, Japan and now Thailand! Tomorrow I am going to make my way towards Laos. Instead of booking a tour company to pick me up and organize the slow boat, me and some people from the hostel are going to try and figure it out ourselves at the border. We will take a two day trip down the Mekong river from the Laos border to the main city of Luang Prabang. I am so stoked for Laos. It is going to be the first country wining I will travel completely, from top to bottom. It is also the first country of the trip which I will be entering as a solo traveller. I'm feeling on fire in my travels and want to keep going and finding awesome adventurous. Four months down, who knows how many to go!
