Laos with Hunter S. Thompson

“Laos is as different from Vietnam as Big Sur is from Long Island” ~ HST

Early one evening in March 1975, Hunter was watching a nightmarish film of the evacuation of Da Nang on the evening news. The phone rang, and Hunter picked it up. It was Wenner, saying, "How would you like to go to Vietnam?" Hunter couldn't resist. The collapse of the American empir…