As we headed for the bus station as the sun rose over the mosque my head was full of questions. Most pertaining to our destination of Semporna. Would we find a place to sleep? Would we find a place to take us snorkeling? Would we see a shark? More importantly I thought, would a shark see us? We headed out for our long hot trip to Semporna. As we set off down the dirt road on our way back the highway we passed several raised longhouses, one of which our driver stopped at to pick up his jacket. Why he needed [View Full Entry]

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As the sun started to set on Malaysian horizon we found ourselves skipping along a muddy river in fishing boat headed towards our jungle camp. Now we were heading "in the shit" we told ourselves. Uncle Tan's is really in the middle of nowhere, or at least it felt like nowhere. We saw some people come down to the river to bathe but where they came from remained hidden from our view. We arrived at the camp and headed up the rickety boat ramp that would eventually collapse during our stay. I walked up to check our hut and saw that [View Full Entry]

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After about a year since my last adventure outside Korea I was ready to head off. It's not that I needed to get out of Korea but that I needed out of Seoul. This could have easily been remedied with a quick little trip down south or somewhere near a National Park. As it was, I had a week vacation and it seemed like the best thing to do was get out to some other part of Asia and see what it had to offer. It didn't take much time at all to decide that I wanted to be somewhere that [View Full Entry]

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On our second in Phnom Penh Joe and I decided to head for the town of Siem Reap. Not that we'd seen enough of Phnom Penh but after the night of dropped off at bordellos and a day spent at Cambodia's more depressing sites we thought it was time to get to what we came for. Our trip was to start as many other trips have gone. On a bus. I could sit here and right about the six hour bus ride but I'll choose to focus on the one interesting thing that did happen. We were traveling down some cambodian [View Full Entry]

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Our one and only day spent in Phnom Penh would turn out to be a very hard and depressing day. If you don't know about the Khmer Rouge it's because this atrocity seems to often get overlooked. The Khmer Rouge and the Pol Pot regime of the mid 70's is one filled with death and violent crimes against humanity. In a mere three and a half years this regime was responsible for the slaughter of over two million Cambodians. Just to put that into perspective, that was roughly 30% of the Cambodian population at the time. I admit myself that I [View Full Entry]

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So after careful deliberation, 9 months or so, I've decided to let the rest of this internet world in on what Joe and I experienced. It has indeed been a long time since the actual trip but, well I'm a procrastinator so here we are. The story begins back in late July of 2008. Joe and I had just arrived on a late flight into Phnom Penh with no confirmation that our airport pick up was going to be exactly that, a pick up. I like to welcome certain little misfortunes on trips so I think both of us were ready [View Full Entry]

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