Stuck in the mud

Yesterday was an adventure altogether. Today I am still tired from the trip. We had to get bamboo in the forest for the new building in Hui Kau Laam. What I didn’t know was that it had rained for two days straight up in that area.Cati asked me if it is okay to go. I assured him that it was no problem. Already on the way into the mountains I had to pull out the winch and drag the truck up the hill.

We loaded the bamboo some friends have cut before. This was quite a heavy load and the road was pretty muddy and steep from the small valley we were in. We had to use the winch twice to get up the steep hill. Then later I slid into a deep ravine that would lift the back of the truck way up and push the front axle deep into the dirt. All this happened while driving downhill. The was no way of backing up. Only with the help of some other Lahu on the way to their fields we could push the truck down to lift the front axle out of the dirt.

We all arrived save for lunch. Mida had cooked for us and we were pretty hungry from winching the truck out of the mud so many times.