Lots of our time here is spent on everyday life.  I thought about taking a minute and showing just those every day things that aren’t as splashy . . .   like our typical hotel room in a 3 star hotel not western hotel.  Breakfast is always included, and the buffet is multi national, so there’s is always rice, and soup for Asians, meat for Europeans and eggs for westerners.

The power poles and the telephone poles are amazing, I can’t imagine how they can figure out which belongs to who.  And the streets are only wide enough for two cars, so the sidewalks are used for parking. There is a real hierarchy, pedestrians give way to bikes, who give space for scooters, who move over for cars and buses.  All with lots of beeping, and in Cambodia add the tuk tuk to vehicle options.  At least both of us and our luggage fit in one.  We have begun using the peace sign in some of our pictures, so many Japanese and Koreans use the peace symbol it seems a part of our trip.

We try and take bike rides in the country side, who knows what you might find.  Surely it involves a ferry, and someone who speaks English that wants to practice speaking, and the cutest kids you ever saw . . . We proudly explain we have 5 grand kids it breaks the ice.  It also involves dirt roads, so after one muddy ride when we passed the water buffalo, (the water buffalo always mug for the camera) we found a car wash and gave the bikes a little bath.

The TV here has roughly 5-6 English speaking channels.  One shared by BBC and CNN, HBO and Fox movies, who show mostly older movies or movies with a conservative dress code, a channel which combines Discovery, National Geographic and Animal Channel and finally one that shows Dancing with the stars, American Idol, Hells Kitchen and is aptly called the Diva channel.  We are pretty comfortable, indeed.