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Apr-23-2004 19:49
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So, looking at the web logs, I know that we have players here from about 30 different countries. I just thought it would be interesting to put somes names with places.

My wife and I live in Boulder, COlorado in the U.S. Where the winter has returned for the weekend. We actually moved here pretty recently from Seattle, which is my home town.

Oct-24-2004 08:19

I was there during the elections, I think it was my trip in 98. All embassies were telling us NOT to go there, so we went there. We started in Pnomh Penh, had bullits flying over our guest house. American embassy advised everyone to leave. So we went up north to Siem Reap. There I got caught in a Kmer Rouge attack of some sorts at a remote temple. Plenty of other adventures in Cambodia. Going over land to Vietnam. But despite all the danger, I saw the most impressing things....like Angkor. I can not imagine the tour busses, club med and the sorts. Oooooooh noooo.

I considered going back, but I think I should keep the memory as it is.

You'd think, well nice for the Cambodian people that they have a lot of tourism up there. But I bet the money goes straight to Japan, and the government.

Since then I have seen a bunch of documentaries about Cambodia. During college I specialized in human rights and developing countries. My respect and hat off to you!!!!! I originally wanted to do what you did, but decided against it for various reasons. Some days I have regrets about that.

Oct-24-2004 11:34

Glad you made it through in one piece, jstkdn! Ah, yes - '98. Good times. I had to dodge the protests and gunfire to go to work every day after the election. Just after that settled down, there was a kidnapping victim held an apartment just below our place and he escaped by throwing a couple of grenades in behind him and shooting the place up with an AK... But I have to say I'm glad I stayed. I have a four year old son who's lived here (Phnom Penh) all his life and it's much, much safer now.

... I did some work up in Siem Reap earlier this year and Siem Reap is still one of the poorest provinces, outside the town and temple complex. I could go on and on, but I can hear people yawning...

Oct-25-2004 08:26

Glad to hear it is safer now. It was just tooooo much in 98. I mean the 10 days I was there, I got my head blown off 2 times, had to leave certain areas quickly as issues starting ocurring guns everywhere, had to get used to seeing UN tanks to support an election. That is MAD please for anyone to grow up in, even if you are used to war, like the Cambodians are.

Uhm, you don't happen to have a really good digital picture of Angkor or one of the other temples do you?????? I am looking for one to blow up like mad, particularly if they have lots of colors in them (like the reflection in the water, sunset something like that.)

Oct-25-2004 09:19

Hi, name is Sana and playing Sleuth from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Europe :)))

Oct-25-2004 09:30

jstkdn, you are on your THIRD head already???

:)

Oct-25-2004 15:56

It is just in that word....almost. But sometimes I think, my different heads are talking to each other. :)

Someone say something?

Hi there Sana from Bosnia!!!

Oct-25-2004 22:14

I'll take a look through my pictures for you jstkdn and see what I can find. I will also be up in Siem Reap next week with visiting family, so maybe we can get a good one while we're there.

Oct-26-2004 01:24

I'm in Seattle, WA. Wish I could be more exotic for you. I'm Argentinean, if that means anything ^_^

Oct-26-2004 15:02

That would be AWESOME Megan. I have been looking for one for ages. But the stuff I get from the internet are too low quality....and let me not start about my own pictures. Baaaad.

Oct-27-2004 05:23

My real name is Bevan and I live in Perth, Western Australia