So many things crossed my mind the first trip I took up country that I didn’t know what to think. My mind kept conjuring images of grass huts and half naked tribal women…well, to be fair my mind always conjures half naked women, tribal or not. The bus pulled out of Pattaya in the early evening and it would be 10 hours or so before it pulled into Mukdahan.

I didn’t expect much of the trip except sleep, and sleep came easy as the bus was very comfortable and they even provided blankets. I woke about 2 hours before we reached Mukdahan and I focused on the scenery passing by my window.

Some of what my mind had conjured was there, the fields and the long expanse of wooded areas. I found my little window to Issan to be very relaxing and exciting in a way. I didn’t know what was coming and I couldn’t wait for more.

I took a lot of pictures that morning from the bus window, some good…some not so good, and I thought you might like to see through my eyes what it looked like to ride through Issan for the first time.

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