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We are currently sitting in a bus stop in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Waiting to board another overnight bus taking us back to Bangkok. We should arrive in seventeen hours (so they say). But our experience tells us it may be somewhere along twenty. (Update: we arrived in twenty two hours). Moving on..

We just spent five days on the Koh Rong and Koh Rong Somleom Islands of Cambodia. When we began researching this destination we wer...

And here I am.

Sitting in a minivan driving through the jungles of central Cambodia. It's amazing how quickly your lifestyle can change. This is it. We are in it. We went from 8 to 5, urban apartment, red wine every night to backpacking through Southeast Asia.

We are lucky, man. And to be honest, I really dislike the term lucky. Blessed would be more accurate. And willful. Determined. Creators. Manifestors. Receivers. Any of the...

Angkor Wat.

Holy cow. I am SHOCKED. I mean completely shocked at how open this sacred religious monument, ancient city, and new world tourist attraction is. You enter the temple complex and enter a land completely unknown to you. The city the Khmer empire created from the 9th to the 14th century is enormous. My mind could never fathom a creation like this. These are the most incredible ruins I have ever seen.

There are hardly an...

When we arrived in Cambodia, it was dark (shocking), and I was sick. I mean SICK. Ok I could have been worse. It could always be worse. We caught a 10 and 1/2 hour bus out of Bangkok headed straight for the border. We rerouted our plans because we have four friends traveling into Thailand beginning December 15th and leaving late January. Rather than retracing foot prints in Thailand when they arrive, we opted to knock out Camb...