My loot from Vientiane, all bought at Cafe Vanille. On the bus to Pakse, I ate most of brie and all of the Spanish salumi, the lomo or pork loin, for lunch and dinner. I did not get off this bus until after 3AM, a trip of +17 hours on the worst road immaginable. I had traveled this same road in 2020 and it wasn't nearly as bad.