Onward!!! to china…
Don’t worry I’ll be taking a plane not a slow boat, though this monster would be fun to take out. CHINA is next and with it new adventures, new cultures, new people, new language to overcome, the last hurrah for my squad. So you may ask me . “Are you ready for it to end?” And I respond “Thats a trick question Mr/Mrs. Sneaky.” This life is a journey, its the journey. World Race was just putting a label on it from time period A to time period B. And if I really ended it now, I just don’t think I would be satisfied. Which is good, our thirst for life should never be filled. So here we go China, then here we go Vietnam/Laos/Thailand/and beyond. Life begins (and sometimes ends) when you want it too.
Double post!!!
Angkor Wat
Lacking in the camera category hasn’t always been the worst thing in the world. Gets me a chance to find other ways to record people and places. I saw everybodys Angkor Wat picture blogs and thought I would share with you all how I am remembering my second wonder of the world.
I actually had a great day riding my bike around the temples, painting. You almost become part of the show when you paint. People come up and watch you, ask about your pictures, even take pictures of you! I had one guy for nearly 5 minutes climbling all over the ruins behind, in front, looking for a good angle of my work. Can’t lie, I like the attention.
Unfortunetly my bike ride home was in a storm, and my lil sketchy book got quite a bit wet during the miserable ride home. Watercolors live and die with water. This one lost the most colorful part in the corner.
Fortunetly however, the reason I didn’t leave till after the strom hit was that I met some wonderful vendor 10 year od girls that spoke really good english…and spanish. We went back and forth between languages and had fun running around the ruins together till dark. Its always a rare treat to find people who can speak you language well, especially kids, love em. One girl, Tea, even let me follow her back to the house in the middle of the rice fields and fed a hungry boy rice and fish lettuce wraps, all with coconut juice with not one but two dead flies in it. I love that stuff. Those folks blessed me beyond belief, the grandma even gave me her flashlight for the several mile ride home in the dark rain.
I just couldn’t do some of these places justice. Ta Prahm (sp) was an amazing site as huge trees slowly destroyed ancient buildings. Watch Tomb Raider and you’ll see plenty of this temple.
Good day yo!
