One year ago today I got some sleep.

One year ago today I left my hotel in Bangkok at 5 AM for my flight to Phnom Penh. I still had my winter gear with me (the journey had started in New Hampshire) but had no intention of carrying that all over Cambodia - it would have taken up 2/3 of my backpack. The woman at the hotel almost refused to let me store my coat there on the grounds that it wasn't a locked bag and therefore wasn't secure. She wasn't swayed by my argument that no one in Bangkok would dream of stealing a winter coat - you might as well light yourself on fire.

I got really scared at the prospect of wandering around Banglamphu at 5 AM looking for a place that would let me store my coat, but then she mentioned that I could rent a locker big enough for my coat and buy a padlock from her. Uh, okay. So what were we arguing about? I was off.



Ever see the South Park where they fly on City Airlines? That's pretty much what Air Asia is. Dirt cheap flights where the pilots steer like they're on bombing runs. Even the taxiing felt aggressive.

In Phnom Penh I found my way to Boeng Kak lake and checked in at Lazy Fish Guesthouse. I had slept for about 5 hours in the last three days and I was freaking out about some personal issues back in the west, so I wasn't in a good mood and my first written estimation of Phnom Penh was "kind of a shithole".

Around 2 PM I went to bed. And proceeded to sleep for 16 hours.

Things got better from that point.