Kiss! Kisskisskiss! Kiiiiissss!! I spent a good two hours of the bus ride from Bangkok to Poipet gazing three seats ahead at the Cambodian mother kissing her sweet baby. Ahh, the flutter of my heart and the patter of that good old biological clock!… [Read More]
Cambodia
Angkor Wat by Sunrise
At four thirty am, my cellphone alarm exploded me awake in my ridiculous supply attic room (pictured left– no joke).Was a torrential lightning storm going to foil my plans like yesterday morning? There are no windows in my supply attic room, so I padlocked… [Read More]
The Cambodian Child Sex Trade
In Phuket, Thailand, I spent some creepy time chatting with womanizing older German men. They all had twenty-something year old Thai girlfriends already, but they had big other plans. “Every day vee play Poker together,” said Hans with a leer, “And vee put money… [Read More]
The trap on the Cambodian Border
Part of the reason I stayed so long in Bangkok (besides the wonderful people) was I was terrified to cross the infamous Thailand-Cambodia border at Poipet.I was right to be scared. “This is NOT the border,” said Thomas. “We asked the tuk-tuk to take… [Read More]
