Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2023 vs. 2000 I first arrived in Phnom Penh in February of 2000 in the back of a pick-up truck and covered head to toe in red dust from a 12-hour ride along the rough dirt track that served as Cambodia’s national highway. The city then had the feel of a wildContinue reading “The Transformation of Phnom Penh”
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Slum Changes in Phnom Penh
I found the slums of Phnom Penh beautiful in their way decades ago when I was first in Cambodia. It was a chaotic collection of wooden houses on stilts with tin and thatched roofs surrounding a swamp, and narrow dirt pathways meandered through the lives of the people that lived there, chickens pecking at theContinue reading “Slum Changes in Phnom Penh”
Chasing Chernobyl
After ten rough hours on an old, clattering plane, I touched down in Kiev drained of energy. Unrelenting engine noise had bombarded my eardrums the entire flight and now, in the relative quiet of Kiev street traffic, my ears were ringing in a way that was significantly more uncomfortable than the noisy flight. I’d comeContinue reading “Chasing Chernobyl”
Locked in a Cambodian Hotel Room
We kind of ran out of places to travel. With a three-month limit in the Schengen zone, our only options seemed to be to go back to somewhere we have already been during this pandemic. But also, the days in Greece were getting cooler and shorter and my only item of cold-weather clothing was aContinue reading “Locked in a Cambodian Hotel Room”
The Stegosaurus and Covid-01
Hidden among Cambodia’s ancient temples is an 800-year old carving of what is assumed to be a stegosaurus, a dinosaur that went extinct 150 million years ago. Rather, the carving depicts an even more obscure creature, the elusive pangolin, a scale covered ant eater that can be found in the jungles of Cambodia. This creatureContinue reading “The Stegosaurus and Covid-01”
The Coronavirus Prophecy
Twenty years ago a fortune teller in Cambodia read my palm and told me that I would die when I’m forty. I don’t believe that nonsense, but I recently turned the prophesied age and, walking home from a bakery in Belgrade a couple days ago with a birthday cake for my daughter, the coronavirus nearlyContinue reading “The Coronavirus Prophecy”
COVID-19, Cambodia and Root Canals in Albania
Covid-19 saved me $2000 and a lot of pain. I was at the dentist when my phone buzzed with a text: “we’re bringing ND home. Game cancelled because of the virus.” He had been looking forward to playing high school baseball for so long and it looked as if they would not be playing againContinue reading “COVID-19, Cambodia and Root Canals in Albania”
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