Day 46 Changing in a Mai for a Rai

Reluctantly I left my home of the last four days Chiang Mai. It was a pleasant town, well I guess a city but it felt too cozy to me to be named a city. I was off to Chiang Rai to see a few sights and catch the slow boat to Laos. A short and easy 3 hours later I was in Chiang Rai at one of the best guest houses I have stayed at on my journey. Not because the people were particularly amazing, the crowd wasn't much to my liking but because I got a decent private room for a third of what I paid in Chiang Mai and the people who worked at the hostel were kind, honest and sweet as pie. I wished I could have stayed longer but it couldn't be so.