Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Asia Dad and I got up today not even caring where we were in the world, the more important thing was that the Patriots had played last night against the San Diego chargers and we had the recorded version to watch on my computer. We went downstairs in Me Mates Place and had some breakfast while we watched the Pats kick ass again, for a second week in a row! The breakfast in the hotel was pretty…
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Asia We got up this morning and packed up all our gear for the bus trip. We had our last breakfast at Golden Mango Inn and our taxi showed up bring us to the bus station at 8am. We got to the bus station and were on the Mekong Express Bus to Phnom Penh. The bus was nice enough, but the air conditioning on it was terrible. It was barely blowing any air, and it certainly wasn’t…
Siem Reap, Cambodia, Asia This morning’s 4am wake up call was not exactly what I was hoping for today, but dad and I got up anyway. It didn’t appear to be raining or too cloudy, so we thought we could get a good view for sunrise. Sok picked us up at 5am and we headed over to Angkor Wat. The roads were really quiet in the dark of the early morning, until we got to the temple of course. It…
Siem Reap, Cambodia, Asia I was woken up by my dad this morning at 5:45am, and amazingly he wasn’t tired at all. We got about five hours of sleep and he was good to go. I was a bit tired, but still looking forward to seeing Angkor Wat. We actually found the Red Sox game on TV in the room, so we got to watch that for a bit while we got ready to leave. We had breakfast downstairs at…
Siem Reap, Cambodia, Asia I got up this morning, packed up my bags and set off in a tuk-tuk at 8:30am for Luang Prabang Airport. It is the smallest airport I’ve even been in, but again it was dead easy to check in and get through security. The flight was supposed to leave at 10:40am, but we found out at 10:30am that our plane was coming from Hanoi and was running late. My ticket was booked on Laos Airlines, so…