The rains here are torrential. We got our first real taste of it late yesterday afternoon while waiting for the doctor to arrive at CCF. It had rained before, but this afternoon – thunder roared, the sky opened up and in minutes the water had risen in the streets nearly a foot. Kids on their [&hellip…
While strolling through the market to buy Art some shoes, we came across a small fried food stand. My DP is almost always hungry and I glanced down to see what fare was being offered. There were four large tubs of deep fried larva, cockroaches, grasshoppers and beetles. Art decided he wasn’t that hungry but [&hellip…
I’ve been up since 5 am due to a combination of jet lag, a faulty air conditioner that shuts itself off every 2.5 hours, a mistaken call from the front desk informing me my Tuk Tuk had arrived and two drunk guys who mistook my room for theirs and fell against mine in an attempt [&hellip…
Last night Art and I had dinner with a couple he knew through friends back home. Piseth, a native Cambodian and his wife Siobhan, from Australia, met while Piseth was a monk. Born in the rural countryside during the tail end of the fight with the Khmer Rouge, he became a monk at a young [&hellip…
It’s five am and I’ve just spent a restful four hours in Taipei despite the fact I was sleeping in the hotel terry cloth robe. (Did I mention our luggage went direct to Cambodia?) As I sit here in this very nice hotel sipping some Earl Grey tea, I can’t help but think of how [&hellip…
My siblings are dying for me to post this first part of the blog for today. Because they know once I do it will be open season on first class teasing and snarky messages they can leave on the message board. The trip has not exactly gotten off to the most auspicious start. Art and [&hellip…
Less than twenty-four hours to go before the plane takes off and I’m having a hard time believing I’m actually ready. Having learned the hard way from the last trip, I’m prepared with food for the plane, chopsticks that will NEVER leave my sight, boots for the dump and enough dollar bills to cover various [&hellip…
I’m sitting at my desk reviewing my lengthy sticky note of things I still need to get done before Saturday rolls around and I’m once more crammed into a decrepit wing seat on EVA airlines en route to Cambodia. My suitcase is actually already packed, but I am positive I am forgetting something…. Ah – [&hellip…
At last a morning with a short agenda and no 5 am wakeup needed. I sleep until 7 and leisurely read a British tabloid on the veranda after straightening up my belongings and cramming them back into my suitcase. We are going back to the temple area today, but only for a short bit, and [&hellip…
It’s actually five past five and our wake up call, which was actually supposed to be a wake up knock, since there is no phone, never materialized. Thankfully, Theresa never really seems to sleep and she’s gazed at her watch and seen the time. Within moments we are both scrambling around and cussing. The sun [&hellip…