I’m on the minibus I paid US$13 for with lots of people who certainly didn’t pay that much. As Nicole said, it’s the relative amounts we can pay, but that won’t help my legs stretch out any. Well I didn’t ask for comfort when traveling abroad, otherwise I would have stayed home.

hours later

Yikes, the nice pen I got today turned out to be terrible for writing. Good thing I bought two crappy-looking ones too. So Siem Reap. It sure did take a while to get here. The guy at the guesthouse in Kratie said it’d take about 5-6 hours to get here, but in reality it took 8.5 - 9 if you count the fact that it left 30 minutes late. I’ll just count this as yet another lesson to take claims made here with a grain, or maybe even a kilo, of salt.

Siem Reap is fairly nice. It’s the most modern of all the cities in Cambodia I’ve been to so far. Too bad I had to skip Phnom Panh. My three days on Angkor start tomorrow! I wonder if I’ll see anyone I know. Nicole should still be in the area. I promise to take lots of pictures.