http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/JasonKessler/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from JasonKessler en-us Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:52:04 +0000 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:52:04 +0000 Columbus Indiana is a strange place. It's an industrial company town home to Cummins Diesel that happens to have some of the best architecture in the US.The philanthropist J. Irwin Miller offered to pay the architects' fees for the public buildings not for their construction expenses. While this arrangement doesn't result in architecture on a monumental scale it does result in clever solutio http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Indiana/Columbus/blog-161188.html Fortunately getting from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap no longer requires sitting on top of a speed boat in the middle of a giant lake for six hours getting sun stroke. Instead for a quarter of the price you can spend the same amount of time in a cramped aggressively air conditioned bus while listening to the hits of Khmer Karaoke. The bus operators were even kind enough to include several microphon http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-164564.html Note I'm on a slow connection right now so I'll put the pictures up when I get a chance. Alex has some excellent ones on his blog Shoppers delight. Coming in directly from Cambodia Malyasia feels like more like New Jersey than Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur their futuristic capital city is like most capitals not really intended for tourism. Nonetheless we were able to get a cheap flight o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Wilayah-Persekutuan/Kuala-Lumpur/blog-165480.html