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Sihanoukville: By popular demand…

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Photos! From North Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. You can see them all over at my disorganized photo dump of a Flickr page, but for a taster/teaser/Sizzler/sampler, have a look here first. Generally speaking, we’ll work backward in time, starting with Angkor Wat….


A Wonder of the World.

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Siem Reap: Doh maaa

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

My blog server crashed sometime during the past couple days, and I’ve lost a bunch of my posts from the last month. Yep. Bummers McBummersly. I’ve found and followed some google-cache guidelines for restoring most of them, but as it happens, through the restoration/re-posting process, these cached versions were then overwritten. The upshot is that the post from Chiang Mai about the “fetal” Irish pool players and the Irish guy going off with the possible ladyboy… well, that post is gone. The funniest one, dagnabit! Also lost are a bunch of your comments, but I have been able to repost those that I could find. Schiesser, as the Germans and Austrians would say. I don’t know what they’d say in Lao, Thai or Khmer, or else I’d write that. I know that “doh maaa” means “motherfucker” in Vietnamese, though. (Thanks, Duke of Nam!) So let’s go with that: Doh maaa!!!

But I guess dem’s da breaks.

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Vientiane: I ate goat meat

Saturday, September 16th, 2006
It’s true. I was walking down the street in Vang Vieng, and went into this local sundry shop. There was a family outside, eating a communal dinner. I couldn’t find what I was looking for (shower soap), and said “khop jai ... [Continue reading this entry]

Luang Prabang: Laos is rad

Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Pai -> Chiang Mai -> Chiang Rai -> Houayxai -> Pakbeng -> Louang Prabang. This was my route over the past week or so. And now I’m in Laos — pronounced Lao, yo. Silent “s”. Laos is rad. It’s clearly much ... [Continue reading this entry]