Friday morning I picked up my visa and headed out. The day before i had met two other bikers warning me about shootings around Kasi which I didn't take too seriously until I looked it up in the morning - many killings and injured with an escalation the last 3 months. Not my kind of fun being a sitting duck on a mountain so without planning, I decided to go the only way around Kasi – from Vientiane west and later north along the Mekong River...