Road to nowhere

So for whatever reason, we are getting booted out of the country (along with everyone else who got their visa at embassies in Cambodia) on the 10th April. Ostensibly some big National Congress meeting or something (btw, did I mention that the Party is Life?), though now that we're in Vietnam no one has heard anything about it.

Long story short, if we could stay in the country another 2 days or so, all our stitched-together flights back to Hong Kong would click into place nicely. However, now we're T-minus 1 week and are having some trouble figuring out how we're going to evacuate, as we're now missing flights by as little as 30 minutes.

Also, China has suddenly become this big, money-guzzling proposition, especially if we're only entering to transit to Hong Kong. However, the alternatives (budget airlines to Seoul, backtracking to Bangkok, rotting in a Vietnamese jail) are equally unattractive.

As I write this, though, the tour lady at this internet cafe has taken it upon herself to start a frantic search for flights to Bangkok. The scent of commission must be thick in the air.