When we first arrived in Siem Reap, we tried to see "the lake." Unbeknownst to us, through a series of miscommunications we find ourselves talked into going on some very expensive trip to some floating village. It was not very expensive, and had we known how spectacular it would be, we would have gone regardless of prices or miscommunications. We were escorted by boat by two charming Cambodians (of course we talked them into a few Angkors (national beer) f...

The ride from Can Tho, Vietnam to Kep, Cambodia was all too easy - especially with one of our moto drivers, Kun, being a Ho Chi Minh City University Graduate (left a career in teaching for driving a scooter, better money). We easily negotiated the border crossing process (again thanks to our scholar), visa acquisition, and health check (involved a temporal scan, and Kelsey and I laughing that any physiological heat and indigestion was undoubtedly - strangely...