Real life vs. …?
Peter, the island’s resident furniture maker-turned carpenter from Slovakia, says architects have a problem with reality: they don’t operate within it. I think such a blanket statement smothers potentially genuine […]
Category Archives: 2013
Working on Koh Rong Samloem
Okay friends and faithful followers, there will be a delay in the postings. I’ve gotten myself into a work-trade arrangement on Koh Rong Samloem with a SCUBA dive shop. They […]
Sen Monorom, Mondol Kiri and Rice Wine Okay!
Elise and I found ourselves in Sen Monorom at 7:00. Bus-weary, fluent in Khmer karaoke narratives, and half-starved, we disembarked, shook off the various tuk-tuk drivers, and found the closest […]
Kampong Cham
When traveling some towns strike one as comfortable, simple, or welcoming. Others exude an air of… something else. Kampong Cham is such a place. Bizarre, eerie…just downright off. After a […]
Rabbit Island + Kampot Trade Show
What does one need after days of interrupted sleep, river swimming, and westerners? A trip to an island. Rabbit island is just half an hour by boat from Kep and […]
Kampot: Palm Wine + Kep: BBQ Squid
I thought to renew my visa for Cambodia by doing a quick border run to Vietnam. On the way (sorta) is the small riverside town of Kampot, and nearby the […]
Boxing in Cambodia
Despite the activity with Ben’s rabies shot we managed to find time for fun in Siem Reap. Both Thomas and I wanted to see a boxing match, the famed Khmer […]
The Majestic Mystic Magic Temples of Angkor
In Cambodia one may travel from city to city via bus, VIP bus, sleeper bus, hotel bus or express bus. I think they are all “same same” – no sleep […]
Sihanoukville
A Scottish marine, deployed in his second tour in Afghanistan, gets shot in the leg midair as he is catapulted from the jeep when the convoy hits a landline. He […]
Koh Rong Samloem
I feel like…vacation. On an island without wifi there is nothing to do, but the absence of schedules, wifi, a kitchen, anything…inspired me to DO. Something. Anything. The kids I […]
