Make Your Dreams Reality

The exit form Cambodia had many stages. The first was easy a van from my front door to the border. 1 hour in line then a tuk tuk to the train station. From there we were on a 3rd class seat for the next 10 hours. In Bangkok we ran to get the ticket and back on a new train to auttita still 3rd class seat for 2 more hours.

Now we are in a town that flip has visited before. His friend showed us the town for a day then sent us to pick up Fo. Flip and I spent 2 days in Bangkok then grab fo and off to the jungle. The jungle was full of thing that can hurt or kill you like King cobras, elephints, tigers, just to name a few. The first night we make our camp and went on a spotlight night ride. There was lots of thing out at night, elephants, porcupines (supper big ones.) Bamby deer. ( mini deer), normal deer. It was easy to see the eyes light up with the spotlight. Day two was early wake up and off to the jungle trek. With some good food in my belly we grab our guide and set off in to the jungle. We walk on a path for a bit and the guide turns into the jungle. For the next 6 hours we make our way on elephant paths mostly( you can tell by the poop). At one point we find gibbon monkeys with babys they were curous of us, and we had to hide from elephants. (turns our wild elephants are mean.) It makes me feel small to think such wild places still existed.

Then it was off to Chang mai for two days and the best Sunday street market on my journey. This is where I got my snake hena tat. It was a great town and the people were friendly. We decided to rent scooters to Pai a little town up a mountain and 786 turns. Well I wrecked my scooter and broke my collier bone. I was making a up hill turn hair pin turn on a sub-par road and little tires and many other things that went wrong. I was saved my a truck of Thai locals. One of them drove my scooter and I got in the truck.

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This post is going to be short but the photos will speak volumes. My first stop was Phnom Phen we were here only one day and I am glad we got out fast. The place we stayed was near the river and all the tourist. It was a town I would skip for a smaller town out side of the capital. There was a lot of poverty in this country and I was happy to visit and buy things from the locals to help the economy. The local food was great and the way we did the two Wat loops was key to the enjoyment. For more info on what the best plain for Angkor Wat see my brothers blog it has all the details. Short story ride a bike on both and start supper early. If you do you will be rewarded with lunch poolside every day.

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There were many high lights during the 6 day there. Heaven is a restraint that teaches orphans that are too old for orphanage to cook and make a living. I is Great food and a Great cause. There is the pool that I mentioned we spent most afternoons there. It was easy to play and relax in this town. So enjoy the photos and look for the tree with a door in it.

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As we move south it is getting warmer and the jungle is growing wild and crazy.
As we come out of China the first thing that I notice is people can talk to me and most have some thing to sell. I feel like a fish in a shark tank with my backpack on.(tip, walk out to street away from bus and try for metered taxi.) Some other new things are tuk tuks (taxi bike) a.k.a Sharks!, the food has changed and now I can find menus whit English also.
One night in Hanoi I make some friends over some beers at the hostel, they were going to snake city to eat snakes hearts and snakes in general. This was one thing I said on this trip" I would like to try foods I would never try at home. " So I tried snake cooked 5 different ways, live snake heart and snake blood in rice wine was also part of the adventure. The next day my brain felt like a snake was wrapped around it.

My Dinner

Dr. Office

My Scooter

Wed at 11 PM

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When we landed in Hong Kong it was more like New York then China. Lots of westerners and many people speak english and I started to miss mainland China. In Hong Kong we took the trolly from start to finish for $.40. It was a great way to see the city for cheap. To this point we have only seen the sun 2 days cold and rain is the normal, but that will not stop adventures. There is so much That happened in the two weeks in china I wish I could write about it all. I guess you will have to ask me about it next time we talk.

"Travel is the only thing guaranteed to make you richer." -Unknown-

In my life there has been many days that seem to take forever, but this one is the longest for sure. It started at 5am Mountain Standard Time (MST) 2 hours before sunrise is when Flip and I left for the airport. The first stop was San Francisco CA, there was a delay on the flight so we got to stretch. Then it was the long flight to Beijing, China starting at 2 pm Mountain time. The flight was long and hard, but the good news was beer was free... not that you want to get drunk and wakeup with a hangover in flight. I was too excited to sleep so as I sat there I noticed that the sun was about to set. Well I was wrong. The sun did not set till we got to Beijing at 8 in the Morning Mountain time. So the sun was out for a total of 25 hours. Now my body has no clue what time or day it is. As I write this it is 1 am here in China.

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