City Angkor Siem Reap

... people of the time. Many of the temples were fully reconstructed; however our favourite was the temple that featured in the tomb raider film. This was a completely unreconstructed temple, to get there you had to walk down a narrow wooded path about a kilometre long. Then through the trees a moss clad temple appeared with enormous tree roots dangling down over windows and doorways. We clambered through doorways and over fallen masonry and ...

... monks here are the social safety net. They will help by distributing rice - as much as they have to give, which may not be much in the poorer areas of the country.

My brave taxi driver drove through water higher than the tires to show me the damage to the city and the countryside. This flooding is unusual here. Typhoons don't hit often. The flooding is worse in town, because people have developed ...

... it wll be time to head to Laos.

Leah sen heuy!


Et en francais, maintenant:

Tout recommence ... pour vous, pas pour moi !

L'école,
université, le travail, la salle de gym, les cours de musique,
l'académie de peinture ... tout recommence et pour quelques semains,
vous serez bien occupés... surtout les parents,parmi vous ! J'espère
que vous avez tous passé un été merveilleux et vous souhaite à tous
bonne chance ...

... later

After riding on the I-90 for some time now, we decided to take a side route to get to Yellowstone National Park. By chance, we turned west after Buffalo and the scenery just got more and more dramatic. It was absolutely stunning, no other words to describe it. You know how some things can look/hear/taste ...

... van is just scratched up a little, it really slowed us down...AND construction. The drive was beautiful through Teton Park though. We stopped in Dubois for a supper picnic at the Park and drove through rain around Riverton. We all saw a beautiful double rainbow. We came through the Wind River Canyon at dusk and the rocks were beautifully rosy.

We pulled into Thermopolis at dark and thanks to an excellent recommendation from Sharon, we stayed at the Eagle Rock ...

... tool. It's really just another way to procrastinate. No cooking from here on out though (actually fromn last night). Thank God friends have been feeding us so I at least don't have to clean up my kitchen, Thanks, guys! That tri-tip was delicious! Tonight it's grilled steak and shrimp.

Okay...first stop on the roadtrip is Thermopolis, WY where they claim to have the world's largest hot spring pools, although a review says some place in New Zealand owns that ...

... shower and off to howl at the moon. Never seen a thing like the full moon party. Over 10,000 heads on the beach with loads of bars, food joints and **** load of DJ's just going nuts. Buckets (sand castle buckets!) of whiskey and red bull and a healthy amount of beer and we danced the night away. Well almost. After a period of pretty much going nuts for about 3 hours we had a seat to have a beer and chillout. Louisa and Claire tho took chilling out to a new level and passed ...

So quick update on flight situ, no he has not transferred the money and yes he has come up with annoying excuses as to why (i.e. he needs to wait for it to be authorised by his agency *cough cough ******** cough cough*...) But we shall not give up, and shall slowly wear him down with constant emails and phonecalls until his very dreams are plagued with english people demanding money! But enough about silly annoyances, tis time to talk about my true love; Cambodia! Siem Reap was just ...

... way to Devils Tower and continued to drizzle while at the tower. This is still a truly impressive place though. A group of granite columns that just seem to rise up out of the surronding river valley.

From here its across the state to Yellowstone. I am taking the scenic route and made it about halfway to Thermoplis WY. After leaving I90 in Buffalo WY and getting on Highway 16 this became a really great drive through the ...

... We get a little mud flung at us from the Mud Volcano, but we also survive, phew. We go to a couple other smelling things in search of bears, we find none, but it starts to rain so we start the 50 mile drive back to camp. The entire time we are talking about how great dinner is going to be. All we have to do is set up our tarp and cook the dinner. We get back to the campsite, its pouring, and our TARP IS STOLEN. We ask our neighbors and they claim they ...