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- The Two Backpacks
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January 31, 2005
The Two BackpacksDAY 465: It was advised by numerous parties to travel overland from Bangkok, Thailand to Siem Reap, Cambodia with a transport service set up by a tour agency, in order to ease the transition at the border crossing. What I...Read this entry Red Pills, White Apples, and Blue PumpkinsDAY 466: "I'm not going to be much fun tomorrow," Noelle said the night before when we checked into the New Millennium guesthouse in Siem Reap at 2:30 a.m. after a long grueling journey from Bangkok....Read this entry February 03, 2005
The Smiles Of AngkorDAY 467: "Are you just as awe-inspired as I am?" Noelle asked me as we stood in front of the Bayon, one of Angkor Park's major temples. Her smile was wide with joy, even in the scorching hot and humid...Read this entry Where Life Imitates Video GamesDAY 468: "It looks like a movie set," I overheard one British girl saying to her friends. "It is a movie set," her companion replied. The raîson d'être in the former French-occupied Cambodia is Angkor Wat, the UNESCO World Heritage...Read this entry February 07, 2005
The Ex-Pat ZoneDAY 469: To make up time and to keep ourselves from being oversaturated with temples, Noelle and I decided like many backpackers before us, to skip out on the third day of our three-day Angkor Park pass -- it costs...Read this entry "The Trinidad Show" LiveDAY 470: It's one thing to experience my life on the road via this Blog, but it's another to experience it live, as it happens, as Noelle did that day. Since her first appearance on "The Trinidad Show," she saw...Read this entry Ouch Was An UnderstatementDAY 471: "Okay, make us cry," I said to our tuk-tuk driver after negotiating a day rate for Noelle and me. We instructed him to take us to the darker side of Phnom Penh, the sites where the helpless cries...Read this entry February 09, 2005
Staring Out The WindowDAY 472 (one week since last Thailand entry): "I think that one of my favorite things is staring out the window," I said, staring out the window of a bus from Phnom Penh to the Cambodian port town of Sihanoukville....Read this entry |