Back in 2011, my wife and I got married, and we put off our honeymoon for a while, but

eventually we took a trip through Southeast Asia, and it was, honeymoon is probably not

the right way to describe it.

It was a kind of hectic, kind of bare bones, fast, sometimes pretty stressful trip.

It's just the way we travel sometimes, and while we were traveling, we were in Laos.

It's a beautiful, pretty rural, kind of agricultural country, and at one point, my wife and I were

walking around, and we crossed this bridge over a river, and we were trying to get to the

other side of this huge field.

I said, we can just walk through the field, it's not going to be any problem, she said,

Dylan, this is a terrible idea, and I said, no, no, no, it's fine.

So we started walking through this field, I don't know what they were growing, but it

was tall, it was well above our heads, so you couldn't really see that well where you

were headed, or what was in front of you.

And as we're getting pretty deep, pretty far into this field, trying to sort of cut

a diagonal through it, we start to hear this growling, and five, maybe six dogs come out

of this vegetation, just sort of appearing out of nowhere, and effectively surrounding

us.

And they are snarling and inching closer and closer to Michelle and I, and it was one

of those moments where you just, your heart starts pounding, your adrenaline bursts into

your system, and you just think, oh, no, if this goes really poorly, this could be it,

but a way to go, pretty unpleasant, and so Michelle and I grabbed each other's hands,

and we just, we sort of whispered to each other, like, don't move, start backing up, and

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