We left Japan and arrived in Bangkok Thailand late. It’s one of the cleanest airports from a design standpoint I have ever seen. Everything has a modern feel and is stainless steel and glass. Walking out the doors I got hit with humidity the likes of Florida after it rains. I am already predicting that the humidity will pose more of a challenge than getting accustom to living in a foreign culture. We stayed the night in Bangkok at an YWAM base and then caught a bus the next morning for Cambodia. The bus was the nicest bus I have ever been on. It was a double-decker complete with flat screens and AC. I spent most of the bus trip people watching out the window and observing the countryside. The first thing I noticed is the roads and public infrastructure here are much more what I am accustom to in the States. Even through the countryside the roads lacked potholes and it appeared that electricity was abundant. To be sure this probably isn’t the case everywhere. 
We had to get off the bus and walk across to the Cambodia border. We got across with little trouble, however, the lady that stamped my passport had to look at me several times given the fact that I now have long hair and a full beard. We got on another bus much different from the first; I thought I was going to have a heat stroke. I am not sure when we arrived in Phnom Penh but it was late. We are currently at the YWAM base. The house is situated in an alley that I have grown to love because all the kids swarm you when you leave the base and they know English probably from the many missionaries that have come before me. We were brief by the YWAM director Chris. He is a great guy and has an excellent knowledge of Cambodia’s history. I think I will actually write another blog in the future about what this country has been through but suffice to say they have been oppressed and mistreated. The country is heavily Theravada Buddhist, which shares a lot of similarities with Christianity.
The city itself has a great vibe about it. Most people wake up around 6 when the sun comes up. You can see monks in their bright orange robes walking up and down the streets each morning praying blessings over the locals. The main roads are packed with tok toks (motor carriages), bikes and motorcycles. Their traffic laws are more lenient than ours and red lights and driving the correct way on roads seem optional at times. You can find street vendors by the thousands selling anything you can think of. Overall things are pretty cheap here. You can get a decent meal for $2 or $3 and a really nice meal for $5. There are a lot of western products available in the stores and there is knockoff brand clothing everywhere. That’s all I have for now, check back for more on Asia.
