My second day in Phnom Penh started with another tour that was organized by Envoy Hostel. Today we were taking a look at Wat Phnom, and then heading out of the city to visit a village where they produce silk products. Wat Phnom, literally translated as Hill Temple, is, shocking no one, a temple […]
If you made it through my entire first post about the Toul Sleng Genocide Memorial Museum and Killing Fields, I salute you. Thank you for taking the time to read it. That said, my first day in Phnom Penh was not solely focused on the history of the Khmer Rouge. While those four years […]
I promised to blog this trip extra candidly, so I hope y’all are ready for it here… Fair warning. Alright! So, I planned this trip to Cambodia in the loosest of terms. I had originally planned to be here, in Vietnam, and in Laos during my trip in 2015, but my medevac disallowed THAT from […]
I’m currently about 7 hours into my flight to Incheon Airport (South Korea), the first leg on my way to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I slept about four hours last night to make sure I could sleep at 10am San Francisco time, since that’s around 1am in Cambodia, and I wanted to get on a somewhat […]
It’s been almost exactly a year since I set out on my open-ended backpacking adventure in Africa and Southeast Asia, and here I am on a plane again… I’m incredibly excited to bring you stories and pictures and adventures, but it strikes me that I never completed my story last time. Originally it was because […]
I know, I know, I celebrated Chanukkah? I went to synagogue? Life can be weird sometimes! If you recall from my last post, my mother’s neighbor’s son, David, happened to also be in Yangon, and he’s Jewish and wanted to celebrate Chanukkah. He and his friends had stopped by the synagogue and asked if there […]
After a nice, LONG sleep in my hostel, I woke up around 10am to begin my first full day in Yangon. As I’ve mentioned countless times, it’s near impossible in almost every place I was in Africa, to walk anywhere by yourself. Whether it’s safe or there are just street-touts, you. Are. Never. Alone. So, […]
For those of you who know me in my regular life, you know that I’m always doing something active. Whether it’s derby at least twice per week, lifting 2-3 days a week, or some other yoga or Zumba type class… one of my favorite pastimes is moving. When I was thinking about this trip, one […]
Waking up on day 18 was bittersweet because for many of us, it was our last full day as Mara’s passengers…. At Victoria Falls, over half of the Perfect 10 Plus Three were splitting up… Here’s where we would all be dispersing to: Lena, Johanna & Jane: HOME Dara: DRC Kitty & Silia: To Joberg […]
Day 13 For some reason, I get really excited about border crossing days. I don’t know if it’s because I really like getting the new stamps, or because I’ve never really done land crossings before, or what… but I woke up super excited (and super early, since I needed to use the Urban Camp WiFi […]
