Sick in Sihanoukville

In Phnom Penh.

Wake up. 6 am. Aircon, yes! Go shower. Towel off. Look outside on balcony. Smelly city, yuck! - Check on Taylor, in shower - Lots to pack! Hard things between soft, bag's been getting bigger. - Both Awake, ready to go. Outside. Find tuk-tuk < 10 seconds. Show bus tickets Haggling $2 $1 $1.5 okay. - Drive is 250 m. We were ripped off. - On the Mekong Express to Sihanoukville! Everyone bows put hands together, I feel underdressed not shaved. Bus has aircon, yes! - All types of English get on. - We leave late, as usual.

Smell - smell - smell - sleep - sleep - sleep - mountains? no, hills - sleep - sleep - sleep - bad Southeast Asian Karaoke skipping VCD - sleep sleep sleep - Awake! - Finish reading Huck Finn, good book - we stop to have holy water splashed on the bus. huh? - sleep sleep sleep - Ocean! Off bus!

tuk tuk? No! Moto? No. Moto? No! It 3 kilometers. No! No! No! We walk. Ooh, not good foh me suh. - Gotten very good at rejection. - Walk 1 km, stop. Hungry. - At Happy Herb Pizza we have non-happy soups - Full - Find two motos < 10 seconds. $1.50 to guesthouse? Fine. - vroom!

Monkey Republic? Free beer with check in? - We will walk around - Too expensive - Too far up a hill - too sketch - down dirt road, ocean getting closer! - too fancy - too fancy too! - just right - $5 for 20 m from the Gulf of Thailand - drop huge bags

Walk along the shore - 3 oceans touched for me! - stop somewhere - try to explain we want a drink made inside a coconut with umbrella, no good - drink anyway - I try to explain braces, Taylor laughs - Children stop by while we drink - You wan bracelet suh? Wanna painting suh? You buy from me! You buy from me! Play a game suh? Tic Tac Toe. You win, you get bracelet free. You lose, you buy from me? No. No. No. - Woman come by too - You want massage sir? Mista want guide book? Woman with babies and no social net. Sorry, no. - They all leave us alone. - We walk some more - White Russian, Two Angkor Beer, Pool with Cambodians - offered weed again, no thanks - walk back. - Beautiful thunder. Not feeling so good. Taylor looks at the time.

We eat supper, watch lightning. - Pretty destruction - I go to lie down on warm bed. No aircon! yuck! Old fan over bed at max. I feel sick Get up lie down yuck get up lie down go to toilet - I lose the food poisoning lottery and vomit - power goes out, wheres a flashlight. I get Taylors and drop it, breaking bulb. Find LED flashlight Good. - Go and finish vomiting - yay! feel better - Hose down bathroom with shower head - Taylor: you okay dude? - I've been better. I remember where we are - restless sleep - Power comes on again - Power goes off - I here something and throw on the lights. Nothing. - Lights off again. - There it is again. We get out the flashlight - Rats on the Roof! We check for holes - none - our toes are safe. Power comes on again. Sleep. - 8 am - I feel like shit - Power goes off, Power comes on. 10 am. Taylor already gone, go to breakfast. - Nice Cambodian waiter practices English on me. - Children, women come by. see above. No No No thanks. - Stumble back across beach - Sleep 4 hours - Taylor's back with cheap genuine fresh papayas - We go to leaky porch, watch best lightning ever seen, play card game we made up with waterproof cards - French people come by, we practice notre Francais mal - Feel like shit again - Go lie down - read book - Write this - Be better tommorow - two more days here.