Keeping up with this thing is not as easy as it once was but still it's worth it. I am currently in Cambodia, the south in Sihanoukville to be more precise. Cambodia is sweet. All the people, like so many of the people from other countries I have recently visited, are so welcoming and genuine. Crossing the boarder from Loas was an event, there is a lot of corruption. A dollar here and a dollar there just for a little stamp from guards, police, medical checkpoints all of which are supposed to be free. They are not free and there is no way of avoiding them. Pay immediately or wait and hold up a line of people and eventually have to pay anyway. So you get to the first exit point of loas and for an exit stamp you must pay 2$, for a stamp that says you've left the country. It was 3$ for me cause I had lost my departure card. The guard I was originally talking to sighed and went to hand me another departure card to fill out but before that could happen his superior officer took another dollar from me and slipped into his pocket and told the officer I was talking to to give me the stamp and move me along. Sweet, if only I could pay a dollar instead of filling out form for the rest of my life, oh wait that is probably a lot of money in the end so... I am undecided. So I am told to walk about 500m to the Cambodian border crossing but before i reach it I have to pay another dollar to go through a medical check point, h1n1 gets you ever time. Lucky i was getting low on money so Sarah and I only paid a dollar for the two of us. Next is the visa 23$. I thought is was only 20$ well it is Sunday and they don't want to be at work, i should have guessed, bamb 23$. As long as I get into the country that I am trying to and out of the one I was just in I will be happy, so I got the visa, YES! I am told to walk a few more feet to a police check point. Oh wait, i had two passport pictures so I was alright but if i hadn't of had them it would have been another 2$. Okay so i am at the police check point and I have got to fill in another form and give them another two dollars, well I don't have a penny on me. Nothing, not a dollar, not a kip, not a riel. So I sit for 15 min and then they stamp the form in a very displeased manner and send me on my way.
Nice, welcome to Cambodia!
Phenom Phen, I call in P.P. or Phenom, we have that kind of relationship. A very happening city. Anything is possible here but you will just have to take my word for that casue I am not going into detail.

Before that though i was in the 4000's islands which was really beautiful. Oh and I rode an elephant for 2 hours one morning in Tad lo, Loas. It was like 8 a.m. and I was certain that this elephant was thinking, 'damn i hate the early shift.' Huge massive beautiful beasts. Towering over me. I pet him, yes it was a him, and it was so nice and friendly. Our guide was great, he was so nice to the elephant, and rode on top with us.

Too much has happened since my last post to fill anyone in in any tactful way considering my timed internet usage and financial status. Actually money is looking pretty good but I'd much rather spend it on massage and dollar beers then internet.

Souther Loas was filled with huge waterfalls. The largest one in the south is 120 m high. I tried to get a picture of it and slipped off the path, which at the top of it had a warning sigh,'dangerous.' Opps, so i slipped and was hanging off this dry brush over this cliff. I was alone, well kind of, Sarah was at the top of the hill. Anyway I am trying to grab anything that i think will hold but everything is just ripping out of the ground. I am relaxed about it now but I was flipping out for a moment. Finally i found a root which was strong enough. i am damn lucky i can lift my weight with one arm cause other wise i definitely would have been stuck.well, it is over and I am alive and well writing to you.

Another huge waterfall had the best swimming hole at it's bottom, so nice and refreshing in the 40 degree heat.

Okay so now it is into Cambodia. The first day in Phenom Phen, I went to the Pol Pot regime's killing fields and s-21 a famous torture facility used in the genocide of the Cambodian people 30 years ago. Words cannot really do justice to the feeling you get entering these places. In the killing fields you see bone and teeth half buried in the dirt, a monument of 8000 skulls has been build for the victims of the fields. That was heavy enough so I left after a few days to chill by the beach for a little while. The beach here is alright, good night life. Tomorrow I am heading to an island off the coast for a few days, nice beaches, snorkeling, bamboo huts and coconut palms.

"Chris, man, you have been going for a while. How much longer are you traveling for?"
Chris smiles and takes a sip of his cold beer, "I am not traveling anymore, I am on vacation."