Hello from Chiang Rai

Yesterday we took a three hour bus ride through some very beautiful countryside from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai. So far Chiang Rai has lots of similarities to Chiang Mai only it's smaller. The plan is to stay here for two more nights and then head up to Chiang Khong which borders Laos. After that we plan to spend a couple of weeks in Laos before heading south to meet Dave and Debbi in southern Thailand for Chinese New Years.