A three hour delay from scheduled take off time in Los Angeles, sitting on the tarmac (the 'plane, not me) and all wondering what the engineers were checking for. Finally air born after 3am and landed 15 hours later in Taipei, just in time to run from one end of the airport to the other, collapse in my seat and hope that during the brief 30 minutes lay over, my luggage had been sucessfully transferred between aircraft. Four hours later I was in the taxi headed for Dara Reangsey Hotel situated a short walk away from the Ton Le riverside. It is now 9am and after a night of partial sleep, the taxi has arrived to drive us to Stung Treng, about 7hrs north from here, where we will make a surprise visit to our Khmer
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