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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Lunch with Pirom Us with Newlyweds

Cara was bitter. She was sick, stranded in the hotel room. Adam met Pirom, a clever 16 year old english student, who invited him for a Sunday visit in his family’s village. Adam consumed palm juice, palm wine, and ice cold beer. Adam ate mangoes, palm fruit, tamarind, and coconuts hand picked from their trees. Adam feasted on rice from their paddies and chicken from their yard. In short, Adam spent the day being treated like royalty in the Cambodian countryside by an amazingly nice family, while Cara watched bad 90’s movies in bed.

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Dim Lights, Big City

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

We’re in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, recovering from being in the dirty but welcoming countryside. With any luck our visas and passports will come through this evening for Vietnam and we’ll be on a boat down the Mekong river tomorrow morning.

Time for a regional food update. Cambodia definitely has a simpler cuisine than Thailand and Malaysia, but it has its highlights.

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4 Showers a Day

Sunday, March 18th, 2007
dry season view Fisherman on Kompong Poy Green Rice Paddies We are here ... [Continue reading this entry]

What is in these bottles? Answer: Gasoline

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Took us a bit to figure this one out, but they are frequent sites in Cambodia. quiz

Angkor Away

Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Us at Angkor Wat Faces of Bayon Monkeys steal our  ... <a href=[Continue reading this entry]

Cash is King

Thursday, March 1st, 2007
No Man's Land Bargaining with police men over the clearly posted cost of your visa is a new low. After 1 broken down bus, 10 hours overnight in a cockroach infested border town ... [Continue reading this entry]