Just bought my bus ticket, leaving in one hour.  Cambodia has been insane though!  I have really enjoyed it here.  Its quite a unique country and very different from the others around it.

I will be in Vietnam for about 10 days and then the plan is to fly to Malaysia for the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix.  This isn’t for sure yet, but it is the general plan.  Depends on how much I enjoy Vietnam.  Another option is just to got to China and then the Chinese Grand Prix in Mid-April.

Today I went to two very intense places around Phnom Phen. The Tuol Sleng Prison and the Choeung Ek killing fields. Quite an harrowing experience. To see the hundreds of skulls stacked in the stupa at Choeung Ek was particularly chilling sight. With the internet speeds here I can’t post any pictures yet, but I highly recommend clicking through to the links and learning a little more. The Khmer Rouge only ran Cambodia for 4 years, but over 1.5 million people died during that time. It is not something we hear about too much in the US.

I am waiting here for a visa to Vietnam. Maybe I will take day trip down to the coast tomorrow. The next day I will try and go see some of the killing fields and prison camps from the Khmer Rouge regime.

The travel map as also been updated to the current location!

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A common question I get:

What it is like to travel alone, and do I meet people along the way?

Well the truth is that it sometimes gets lonely.  But being alone forces me to talk to people I probably wouldn’t otherwise meet.

First off, I get to meet some of the locals.  In Bangkok, while waiting for a boat, I met an old man who lived near by.  He was trying to improve his English, and apparently he goes to movies a lot so he can learn.  We talked about The Dark Night, Milk, Valkaryie and Slumdog Millionaire.

On buses, especially, I meet other travelers.  When there is a bus full of locals, and only a couple foreigners, its easy to start a conversation.  On the way to Cambodia I chatted for a while with a guy from the Czech Republic, and ended up splitting a hotel room for one night with a girl from Holland.

Sometimes, I just meet people randomly.  In Cambodia, while scrambling up the steps of a temple, I met a nice family from San Diego.  The dad works for the Department of Defense and the whole family has lived in Singapore for the past two years.

And of course as I am sitting here typing this, I am also talking to a younger spanish couple about the temples and the good things to see in the area.  The traveling world is quite friendly.  It is very easy to meet people, and some of them are amazingly interesting as well.

Finally after a few hours I managed to upload pics of the bus crash

The travel map has also been somewhat updated.

In other news, over the last few days I have gotten a little sick.  I have some travel info books with me, so I’m 99% sure is a bacterial infection going on my with my intestine.  So last night I bought antibiotics for 4 bucks from a shady pharmacy in Cambodia.  They pretty much had every drug known to man available over the counter.  Good news is I am feeling better already

PS :My mom is going to freak out when she reads this, and think I am dying from a rare tropical disease  in Camboida.  Mom, I am OK.