I was limping along riverside in Phnom Penh the other day, Christmas Day, having spent the morning sponging off the seeping plasma from the wounds on my knee, hands, and elbows from a motorbike crash in Saigon just a few nights before, and this guy who looked Cambodian sitting at a bar with some other travellers called out at me, said to me, "Hey, man, what happened to your leg?", to which I answered, "Huh?" or "What?" (I can't remember which one, but really, the...

Well, its been a pretty crazy last few days. Somehow I ended up in Cambodia. Me and some other teachers I know randomly decided to go there for a night. I didn't know that Phnom Penh (capital of Cambodia) was so close to Saigon - about 6 hours. It's closer to Saigon than most other places in Vietnam! Anyway, so we just grabbed our passports and some cash, piled into a cab, and off we went. I don't think any of us even brought a bag. I just brought the clothes I ...