Journeys within Journeys. Two of us on hired motorcycles, up somewhere near Laos’ border with China, with a handwritten note we can’t read. Two of us tootling about on New Year’s Eve, looking for Max’s mom. Seeing a group of women sunning themselves outside a small shop, I stop the bike and head over, bowing slightly…
Category: Artisans at work
Mekong Mud
Wonderful visit to Santiphone Pottery this morning, where artisans are still making and firing pots the way it’s been done for thousands of years: clay from the banks of the Mekong, 30km upstream of here, worked by hand and then fired for a week in massive fire-driven and hand-stoked kilns at temperatures of more than…