“When you get to the bottom of the slide, just make sure you shove yourself off the end. Last week, someone died on those rocks down there.
In 2010, when I was a teenager, drunk, and going on my first backpacking trip in Southeast Asia, health and safety were not the top priorities.
I followed the dreadlocked Australian bartender’s advice, though, and as I got to the end of the tiled slide, I pushed myself hard into the air above the Nam Song River and yelled a warning to the revelers in the water below about my awkwardly approaching cannonball.
