One thing is for sure, our life is never boring. A few months ago a family moved into the house behind us. The house has been traditionally vacant except for rice planting and harvesting season. It is a typical Laos house with one room, a porch, and a kitchen that is very open to the…
Author: Lance Harrison
I am a "Life Artist". I create music, art, theatre, drama, and comedy in my daily existence. I consider myself to be one of the luckiest people on this planet! My dreams come to fruition regularly. There is a certain freedom in my basic anonymity yet I am known by many. I currently live with my wife and partner, Donna, on an island in the middle of nowhere in a country few even think about.
(18) Dancing With The Dead
Arrival Driving hours on end, we finally arrived in Maryland and found our way to the shows. Unfortunately, arriving too late to participate in ‘Shakedown Street” sales. We did, however, make it in time for the show and found Shannon, Davey, Flea, and Queen Jane just in time to go into the concert with them….
(17) A Really Long Drive
Across Mexico to the US border While writing this, I looked on the internet to see how long the drive took from Guatemala to the US border, and it said 24+ hours. All I knew back then was I had lost track of time. It seemed to take forever. We drove, and slept, and drove,…
(16) The Mid 80’s Dodge Ram
“Bottle up and go!” – Tommy McClennan The Mothership The lawyer we hired to pay any bribes and help in addition to the sales of the van told us everything was ready. We could leave anytime. The van was a white, mid 80’s Dodge Ram with the addition of gold trim around the wheel wells…
Girl Scout Cookies
I’m offered one of two types of cookies, one that is shaped like cube covered in toasted coconut and the other is round with chocolate. I take the cube and pop it in my mouth. “Mmmm!” “I have other kinds, too.” The boy says. “I’m selling them for my sister. If she out sells the…
Van Chatter
30, April, 2022 Five other guys and myself sitting around in a van. We are talking about the production of the show we have been working on and how pleased we are with how it’s going. Kudos to one of the guys, a Swedish man who is the director. Also, I was given a “sitting…
(15) We Bought a Van
Shopping in Panajachel Shopping wasn’t so exciting as it all blurred together after a while. Shop after shop, bargaining for the good price and then finding where the place was again that gave you the best price. All the places looked pretty much the same. Eventually, we bought 400 hackysacks, hundreds of ‘friendship bracelets’, 50…
(14) The Compound in Panajachel
The Move to Panajachel We decided that if we were going to get serious about shopping, we needed to move back over to Panajachel from our guesthouse in San Pedro. Panajachel is well known as “a place where ‘Hitmen’ take ‘vacation’”. One old hitman that we met was writing his memoirs and promised to write…
(13) Money, Money, Money!
We were nearly out of money so Donna had Shannon move some insurance policy money from savings onto the credit card. We had to visit the Guatemala City bank to withdraw the money so we could continue shopping. It was, as always, an interesting bus ride as we careened around the mountain roads hoping the…
Sokdee Pii Mai Lao!
Good Luck Laos New Year! Pii Mai Laos is officially three days long but the parties tend to go on much longer stretching a week or more on either side of the actual holiday. The official Don Det Pii Mai Lao celebration starts at the temple, a holy day of prayer. The second day begins…