noodle quest 2006

leaving sihanoukville was ASTONISHINGLY difficult. it was the ultimate in jewish goodbyes. it began two days before we left and went until we nearly missed our bus. unlike the jewish goodbye which extends at legnth towards various conversational tangents and repeated re-seating of one’s self on the couch before jumping up and annoucing it REALLY is time to leave, the cambodian goodbye showcases much more subversive methods in stalling whereby one party directly hinders the other party’s ability to leave by creating lies and elaborate scams. yesterday this included our friends telling us the wrong time from the moment we woke up until nearly 10 minutes before our bus left to kidnapping us to bars on the beach under the guise of going to the bank, in the middle of while we were tryign to pack. whew. but we got out. [read on]

helllllllllllo! happy thanksgiving! it is thanksgiving in newe york today but yesterday was thanksgiving for us here so jessie and i made people show their thanks to us for killing all of our natives by buying us drinks all day. needless to say we were thankful for our hammocks by around 3pm. later we motivated for italian dinner at our italian staple, marco polo, where we had a delicious salad and some homeade gnocci. yum. jessie eats there almost every day- she loves her sauce. do you know that jess NEVER reads my blog? i could be writing horrible things about her and she would never know. haha! i am going to post an excerpt of an e-mail that she wrote to Joe, her dad and she can’t be mad because she will never know! [read on]

it is truly hard to comprehend how i have acheived the feat that was uploading 308 photos. it took 11 hours, 2 sets of electric shocks, ridiculous amounts of patience and humor and 13$ but now you all have ... [Continue reading this entry]

So aside from just generally being sucked into the beach like a helpless jumping silver fish mercilessly throws itself into the waves, there has been some legit stuff going on that justifies not having written in so long. Because ... [Continue reading this entry]

hello- jess and i are still at the beach. there has been a lot going on (serious and fun) and very little time to check in. i will write more when i have a chance.

they have these stores in cambodia called "boom boom rooms" which happens to be an amazing (completely non-sexual) fantasy store where you can upload any cd to your ipod for 0.43$! completely amazing. we are still hanging out in ... [Continue reading this entry]

mmmmmmmmm shellfish. on this beach women walk by with portable grils with fresh squid sizzling and platters of fried lobsters piled high. 2 grilled squid kabobs cost 40 cents and 5 small lobsters cost 1$. It reminds me ... [Continue reading this entry]