| Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| Streets of Phnom Penhdelphia |
 The Best Golden Week Ever (version 2.0) kicked off with a hellish final day of work due to a violent cold. Hopped on the trains the next morning, which were halted and sporadically cancelled due to an alleged earthquake. They should've interviewed me for the TV report, with my backpack and flowing stream of hanamizu (nose-water): "I definitely didn't feel anything. Really. Nothing. Now, where's my damn train to Kansai Airport?!?!?"
 Bangkok airport was my home for an overnight layover, and thankfully Glamalie and Sarah arrived to save me from this scary drunk cowboy man. These benches are quite comfy if you think of them as hard, metal futons.
 Once in Phnom Penh, I remembered why I've been excited for the past year to come back! We stayed again at the Indochine 2 with lovely Danin at the front desk, and experienced the old joys of book-selling kids everywhere, power outages, water outages (usually only for the hour you needed to shower), and clans of bored tuk-tuk drivers on every street. We're home!
 As always in the markets, strange things await at every turn. I can buy live seafood at my grocery store on the lucky days when the big eels-on-wheels-truck comes to town, but I would prefer buying thrashing fish from a dirty bucket of water.
   Rosso, Men's Underwear Vendor to the Stars, needs to know:
 "Hey baby, want a little Santa between your toes?" |
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