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* Saigon: The Museum of American War Atrocities
* Saigon: Where West Meets...More West * Saigon: Three Million Motorbikes vs. Two Mountain Bikes * Photos: Angkor Wat * Photos: Phnom Penh * Eastern Cambodia: Biking Phnom Penh to Saigon * Photos: Laos, Part 2 * Serendipity Beach: You Buy My Fruit? * Sihanoukville: Road Charades * Kampot: Blowin' in the Wind * Phnom Penh: A Very Special Valentine's Day * Angkor Wat: The Conor and Alex Show * Siem Reap: Old Macdonald Had a Bike * Phnom Penh: The Killing Fields * Phnom Penh: Not Just Motos and Hookers * Vientiane: Exposing Ourselves * Na Nam: At Least, That's What Our Map Says... * Vang Vieng: The Ancient Lao Art of Tubing * Kasi: Commie Strongholds * Muang Phu Khun: The Climb
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February 28, 2005Saigon: The Museum of American War AtrocitiesIt could have been possible to travel through Saigon, and probably most of Vietnam, with very few reminders that the United States had fought a war here thirty years ago; I don't know many people that would choose to ignore...Read this update February 27, 2005Saigon: Where West Meets...More WestHalf an hour after arriving in Ho Chi Minh city in the late afternoon of February 24, Alex and I were in a bar along De Tham street in District 1. As we couldn't remember the real name for the...Read this update February 26, 2005Saigon: Three Million Motorbikes vs. Two Mountain BikesAlex and I were about 40 km west of Saigon, near the district of Cu Chi, the afternoon of February 24, when we saw a familiar obstacle in the road ahead. Or at least, it would have been familiar back...Read this update February 25, 2005Photos: Angkor WatAnd introducing: Alex Tattersall, ladies and gentlemen, from the great state of Manchester, England! And also, Angkor Wat. It's a photo extravaganza around here these days, you gotta admit! Tell your friends! And its Ladies Night tonight! And free nachos...Read this update February 24, 2005Photos: Phnom PenhMore catching up with photos to do here: we will happily resurrect The Glenn for this edition, as it covers our days in Phnom Penh, when we met up with our friends Jay and Nancy. Not so many album cover...Read this update February 23, 2005Eastern Cambodia: Biking Phnom Penh to Saigon"I've got an idea for a road trip," said Alex on the morning February 23rd, about 60 km east of Phnom Penh. We were sitting in a roadside hut, drenched in sweat, and cursing the ubiquitous cheaply-made caps of the...Read this update February 22, 2005Photos: Laos, Part 2Ok, as usual, I'm way behind on the writing/photos/discovering who I am. So I'm going to try to catch up now at least on the Glenn photos, taken in Laos on our bike ride from Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng...Read this update February 21, 2005Serendipity Beach: You Buy My Fruit?"We're on the coast, right? I'm not nuts, am I? I haven't gone crazy?" Alex was asking. "I mean, this should be right near the beach..." It was late afternoon, February 17, and the heat didn't seem to be dying...Read this update February 17, 2005Sihanoukville: Road CharadesAlex and I woke up early in Kampot, in southern Cambodia, on the morning of February 17, not quite ready to hit the road. We were both exhausted from the difficult ride the previous day; the only thing that kept...Read this update February 16, 2005Kampot: Blowin' in the WindLess than a kilometer into Alex's first real riding day, outside the tiny town of Takeo in southern Cambodia, the bungee cord holding Alex's small pack onto the back of his bike exploded in two pieces. I heard this, rather...Read this update February 14, 2005Phnom Penh: A Very Special Valentine's DaySiem Reap is a six hour drive from Phnom Penh, and neither Alex nor I were especially looking forward to it. The morning after we had seen the temples of Angkor Wat, we'd be on the road again. That in...Read this update February 13, 2005Angkor Wat: The Conor and Alex ShowAround 8 p.m. on February 12, I was sitting in a sidewalk restaurant with my biking friends, Jay and Nancy, in Siem Reap, waiting for two things - my third banana shake of the evening (because if those things aren't...Read this update February 12, 2005Siem Reap: Old Macdonald Had a BikeTraveling by bike means that taking public transport is always a bit difficult when you're not biking. In this particular case, there was no way I wanted to spend three days biking the 350 km up to Siem Reap to...Read this update February 11, 2005Phnom Penh: The Killing FieldsI imagine that when many people hear of Cambodia, it conjures up images of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, and the Killing Fields. I know it did for me before I arrived here. I did not understand the history very...Read this update February 10, 2005Phnom Penh: Not Just Motos and HookersGlenn and I were biking in from the airport in Phnom Penh, heading down to the river where we would find a guesthouse. We passed a bank, where we swung in so I could change some traveler's cheques into local...Read this update February 08, 2005Vientiane: Exposing OurselvesWe knew we had to be getting within striking distance of the Laos capital of Vientiane when we biked over the bridge at Tha Ngon in the afternoon of Feb. 6 and stopped for lunch down on the river. This...Read this update February 07, 2005Na Nam: At Least, That's What Our Map Says...On the road from Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng, we met a couple of cyclists at our guest house (we met very few in general) - Michael and Rene, an Australian couple, had just cycled the whole route that we...Read this update February 06, 2005Vang Vieng: The Ancient Lao Art of TubingArriving in the small town of Vang Vieng was about as weird an experience as we've had in Laos. We had been biking through the villages and countryside of Laos for three days and two nights, and this was our...Read this update February 05, 2005Kasi: Commie StrongholdsThe trip from Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng was taking most backpackers about eight or nine hours by bus. It was taking us about three days, thanks to those hills and those bikes and our bright ideas about using our...Read this update February 04, 2005Muang Phu Khun: The ClimbThere are two good reasons to bike around the world, and one good reason not to. The first reason is that before you leave town for any particular place, for example, to Vang Vieng, people will look at you like...Read this update February 03, 2005Photos: Laos, Part 1The one thing about this whole biking thing is that there is less time to write, since half the time we're on the road in these tiny villages, so I'm a little behind on the whole thing. If you didn't...Read this update February 02, 2005Luang Prabang: Another Guide Book DisappearsGlenn and I are pretty similar in many ways - it means we can travel well together. There is one major difference between us: while I am afraid of most things that I can think of, Glenn doesn't ever seem...Read this update February 01, 2005Photos: ThailandGlenn and I are a little further on in our travels, just got back to civilization after a few days of biking through Laos. But more on that later - for the moment, yer gonna get some pics of the...Read this update |
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