Posted in Australia, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Israel, Laos, Nepal, Peru, Singapore, Tanzania, Thailand, Travel, Turkey, United States, Vietnam on Nov 30th, 2008
Hello! Well, the blog isn’t dead, yet. After returning to Denver last summer, Jen and I returned to our previous jobs. We bought a home (something about staying in a different place every other night), now own a dining room table and patio furniture, but honestly, the most luxurious item is still our very own [...]
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Posted in Cambodia on Nov 24th, 2007
I am so ignorant.
1.7 million people perished under the reign of the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. The Vietnamese, the Thai, China, the US — all were involved to some extent. Pol Pot, the mastermind behind the reign of terror, died in 1998 before he ever came to trial. To his dying day, he [...]
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Posted in Cambodia on Nov 20th, 2007
The moment we enter Cambodia, racing through the countryside in our taxi, the sun begins to set behind the miles and miles of endless rice fields. The clay turns a vibrant red. Mud-crusted bicycles sit abandoned on the side of the road as young boys in their underwear wade through the water, fishing [...]
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Posted in Cambodia on Nov 18th, 2007
For those of you that think traveling is not work (albeit unpaid), let me detail our last 29 hours, which involved no less than eight modes of transportation:
Krabi, Thailand [3pm] - I find our passports. Let me digress for a moment; I’m guessing you want the story. Jen, having maybe her first lapse of good [...]
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