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We were in the mountains of Laos.
I was at a cockfighting joint playing pétanque with our tour guide, Minh.
Think lawn bowls, except the floor is dirt, the air is full of smoke, and everyone is drinking cheap whisky from recycled bottles. K-pop blares on a distorting Temu speaker.
I was losing. Badly. The locals were laughing at me, but they were blind drunk...
My five-year-old jumped out of the ute and nearly toppled over under the weight of his school bag.
A backpack almost as big as him.
Then he stopped and held out his hand, waiting for me to take him in.
“Mate, I’ve got a meeting”, I said. “Surely you can walk in on your own.”
He just stood there with his hand out, so I grabbed it and hurried him across ...