Woman Power

I walk pretty fast, almost always pass people in front of me. Walking up the street in Luang Prabang the other day a tiny (under 5') woman was in front of me and I wasn’t gaining ground. Thing is, she had a piece of bent bamboo on her right shoulder from which hung two baskets containing papayas and mangoes, she must have been carrying 70 lbs. and she sprang up the road.