Tag: backpacking

New York pub crawls: Because your regular drinking dens are like following the spin-dry cycle

Nothing makes you thirsty like a beer you cannot drink

VANG VIENG, Laos (story from NY Times) — In this tourist town on the Nam Song River, Beer Lao is as ubiquitous as sneakers and sunburns. Bottles of Beer Lao at the Lao Brewery factory in Vientiane, Laos. Part of the rice-based lager’s appeal may be that it cannot be found just anywhere. Backpackers stroll …