Overnight travel to Nakhon Phanom

The reason for this trip I had been asked to attend a school event.  I'm taking a guess that is was a student activities day. The invitation came from the same person who welcomes me into his house during the Tha Rae Christmas and Easter celebrations. The musical entertainment was worth the trip in itself. Students and teachers were just super friendly, all the makings of a very pleasant day.

Overnight stay at Nakhon Phanom Stayed at what used to be called Grand View hotel. Now it's listed as View Kong, but I did not see any oversized guerrilla. The Mekong river water level seemed quite low Protected by a wall of sand, they were busy scooping up truckloads of sand, possibly to improve the river's shipping capability.  The sand is being used at constructions sites. Something became very obvious on this trip: Driving at night I was going much slower than the 100+ on the return trip during the day. I used twice as much gas going at high speeds

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