Siem Reap is certainly a different place than Bangkok! Just finished dinner in the market , I seem to be living on pad thai and fried noodles...not bad for $1 US... I am having trouble posting pictures and when I attempted earlier today, the electricity went out in the town....not too many pics from Bangkok to share anyway. Staying @ a wonderful and quiet little place called Ivy 2 (Thanks Craig!). So much more quiet than the Lek Guesthouse in BKK. Guess that is what happens when you stay next door to a pub with a very large patio and your [View Full Entry]

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What a day...that turned into the early hours of the morning.....It started out in perfect form, a short walk to the Grand Palace...just one road to cross that turned out to be uncrossable! After 30 minutes of attempting we finally found a stop light and made a mad dash before the motorcycles and tuk tuks ran the light. Thinking we had found good luck we headed back towards the Palace. The 'good luck'bird seed vendors would not take no for an answer insisted they 'give us' dried corn to feed the hundreds of birds following them around...Mistake number one was actually [View Full Entry]

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Well after what seemed like days upon days....the last flight landed in Bangkok this morning! Very happy to be on the ground after the four flights! There was certainly a bright spot on the flight to San Fran...it was a wide screen TV with a remote and a massage chair! Yes a fully reclining chair and a massage for almost 5 hours! It was certainly a good pre treatment to the 14 hour flight to Hong Kong! Thankfully everyone had the same thing on their minds...SLEEP! So as rested as you can be after spending almost 24 hours in the air.....shopping [View Full Entry]

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From years, to months, to days, and finally down to hours.....today is the long travel day...Ottawa to San Francisco via lovely Chicago and then on to Hong Kong, finally landing in Bangkok on the 5th....All I remember about trans pacific flights is that they are long, very long....hopefully sleeping will be an option....bye for now.....J [View Full Entry]

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Well here we are, three more days until the long flights start....I hope those of you joining on the journey enjoy the ride. I'd like to thank Tim for the idea...I will write as often as I can and on days when I cannot make it to the cafe I will keep notes to make sure nothing is missed....Jeff [View Full Entry]

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