Paul's Oriental Travelogue

But how do we play the slots?

Cambodia is a coinless society. Not cashless -- there's certainly plenty of that around, though it's bizarrely devalued. Since currency was abolished in 1975 and only re-established in the early eighties, that seems not a long time for 4,010 riel...
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Siam Defeated

Slow boat to Siem Reap: it's the only way to travel. Actually it's a fast boat but it still took 5 hours (starting at 7AM). A bus takes about twice as long on a somewhat similar route because the roads...
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Happiness is a Warm Gun

Phnom Penh Photos Each of these capital cities is as much crazier than the one before it as that one was to the city previous. The level of craziness is increasing at a constant rate. I guess what that means...
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Penh's Hill

Good internet access is hard to come by here in the sticks. And by the sticks I mean the capital city of a sovereign nation. Deciding it was time for a new pair of royalty, a new pair of local...
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Grain Alcohol and Rainwater

I'm taking a light day after the trek, organizing photos and writing, first at a coffee shop, now at a deserted open-air bar. I had to walk around to find just what I was looking for, but here it is....
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Thai Trek

Trek Photos I did disappear off the face of the earth, but only for a few days. After hours and hours of agonized, cramped riding in the back of a pickup truck, I got back to Eagle House 2 last...
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