For Zelig (Cambodia Galeries)

Submitted by Traveller on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 2:30am. Tags:

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....I was really moved by Zelig's recounting of his heart procedure....at least in no small part because it was so damn well written.

I was there with him.

There's always a little blues after big time stuff...so, while hardly complete, and I'm setting out in a whole new direction and means of displaying my pictures....even though they are not ready and you may see them again when they are more complete...for Zelig, I'll post what I have now.

But remember, with 2,000 pictures taken, this 30 or so picture run is only a start...and the jungle stuff will come later.

Still, here is the beginning of the Angkor Wat Gallery (Angkor being the city, Wat being "Temple," and also mindful that when London had 50,000 inhabitants, Angkor was the greatest city in the world with over a million inhabitants.)

Certainly, a place of fantasy....

And on the Road in Cambodia....where I traveled by plane, car, boat, fast-tail boat, Tuk-Tulk, Motorcycle, Elephant, bicycle and miles by foot. At times, dead bodies littered the two lane highway running north from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap...and one howling mother over a lifeless (?) child stuck in that narrow road without shoulders, busy full of cows and buses and cars and pedestrians all moving at different breakneck velocities.

Please click on each individual image so that it is viewed at near full screen, which is how they are intended to be seen:

Angkor Wat:

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6287510_dWvvo

On the Road in Cambodia (Please Note, 2 pages long)

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6325983_CDE9K

And a Little Phnom Penh:

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6287365_cETXy#396480512_DhQ6W

And one fun image in the Current Canon DSLR Challenge:

http://www.pbase.com/cslr_challenge/image/104729817

Best Wishes, Traveller

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you want ecstatic vocalization with your sex (#131807)

by Micky Love on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 10:33pm

In a taxi from PP to the coast, the driver played a cassette of Khmer pop music over and over. I can still hear some of it in my head. I can still hear too the driver's laughter as he ran over a dog in the street..

On another occasion I sat down and joined a Khmer in conversation. After a while I was bowled over when he casually removed his artificial leg which had until then been hidden by his trousers. He explained that it was cooler with his leg off.

According to sources, prostitutes charge locals $US5 a pop. $US6 if you want ecstatic vocalization with your sex.

Nothing resembles virtue more than a great crime. Saint-Just

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Why do I Always Miss Out on the Important Stuff? (#131809)

by Traveller on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 11:12pm

Sounds interesting...but I found no offers for vocalization...lol....maybe this is a different time than when you were there.

But I did get to see a number of dead people in the road, maybe not unlike my sojourn some 40 odd years ago in SEA.

Best Wishes, Traveller

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Are those tongues in your Phnom Phen marketplace photo? (#131792)

by tomsyl on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 7:10pm

The thought of a lot of water buffaloes wandering around unable to moo is heartbreaking.

Even a dead midget is far from light. - Confucius

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Are They Tongues? Hummmm....I Was Talking About The Goods (#131801)

by Traveller on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 8:21pm

....Market being huge.

But the open air food market that that image was shot in is a full 2 blocks square itself and jammed packed full also of....everything.

Maybe they are tongues.

I've added two additional images of the Central Food Market, which is different and distinct from the Goods Market:

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6287365_cETXy#400984452_8EiUr-A-LB

Maybe my better images catching what Phnom Penh is:

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/6287365_cETXy#400984489_J9FJE-A-LB

Best Wishes, Traveller

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that challenge photo is some vertical fun (#131754)

by catchy on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 3:58pm

my fav. was the phnom penh night boats.

cheers trav.

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Well, At Least I'm Not Tom Brady....(Old, Older, Oldest) (#131769)

by Traveller on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 5:59pm

...Tom, thanks for the kind words...but the ravages are there and real, especially with the skin falling in sheets of crape like covering.

Be that as it may, and recognizing that climbing jungle mountains in 100 degree heat, 90% humidity...leaves me dog tired, I know there is nothing that can be done...except to push on and, and maybe a little plastic surgery around the neck (ahem, raised eyebrows that Trav would be vain enough to consider something like this)...

As for the other Tom, this report is distressing:

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The Patriots, as an organization, are upset with the situation because they were clear that they wanted Brady's surgery done under the direction of doctors of their choosing in Boston, sources told ESPN.

Instead, Brady opted to have the surgery in California by a doctor his family preferred, and now there are major problems. Brady was supposed to be back in New England by now, but a timeline for his return remains unclear.

Brady recently acknowledged on his Web site that doctors went in "to clean and to test the wound" on Oct. 15 because of the infection. The New England Patriots quarterback has had two more similar procedures since then.

If the infection is not brought under control, the patellar tendon graft used to replace Brady's anterior cruciate ligament could become compromised.

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It is not as if he wants a carer ending infection in his knee or that the Doctors in California are bad....I'm curious if the Patriots aren't setting Mr. Brady up for breach of Contract situation if this is Career-Ending...Hummmm

Me? I just get older and older and work on lying about my age better.....lol. I do try to be a role model of sorts for others though...you get old, so freakin` what? Big deal, it happens, you've gotta smile.

Cambodia and Thailand were...just about as good as it gets.

I was surprised at how exciting all this was...even for jaded old me....I was a kid again.

Thanks for the comments.

Best Wishes,

Traveller

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Well, traveling can do that for you. (#131781)

by tomsyl on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 6:26pm

I've had a terrific time traveling with my son, whether it's in some fancy place in Europe or just a long driving trip up 395 in California. We're going to be shipping him off to Central America and then Rome on class trips because I believe there's no better way to understand this country and its people than to go other places and mix with the people there. Plus, like you said, when you get to be our ages you get jaded and it's great to see something neew and totally unexpected.

Though it would be profligate, I'd like to see some of the money everyone throws at the education system here spent shipping kids abroad for a week or two while they are still impressionable enough for it to make a difference.

WRT Brady, there are so many stories about various unkillable infections setting in after medical procedures that it makes me want to stay away from hospitals as much as I can.

Even a dead midget is far from light. - Confucius

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Being Able to See Through Your Child's Eyes....Is Just The Best (#131785)

by Traveller on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 6:38pm

....however, staying out of the way of your child so that they feel and have the independence to be able to see through their own eyes...that's the trick. If done well, they'll allow you to see with them.

This world is such a big place, Tom...I remember being simply amazed by the mass of goods being sold in Bangkok...Where in the hell does all this stuff come from!?!...I mean there are just piles and piles of cloths and watches and purses and belts and everything for as far as you can see...I don't think I understood the vast production of the world until I walked for a couple of hours the the central markets in Bangkok and Phnom Penh.

I mean everything was there...and masses of it.

And of course, being with other people, other cultures is always good...You son is lucky to have you as a father.

Best Wishes, Traveller

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Message to Trav from Satchel Paige: (#131736)

by tomsyl on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 1:44pm

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

I have the feeling with you it would be mid-late thirties. %^>

Even a dead midget is far from light. - Confucius

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