We traveled overland from Phnom Penh to Kota Bharu. If you look at a map you can see how ridiculous this is. This rounded off Jaki's 270th hour of travel thus far. Emily hasn't counted, but hers is gonna be big too.
This is what happened (shout out to Clare and Will, thanks for the word game--its stringing phrases together and you read it out loud and it makes sense)
Evergreenback to the futuramamamia, greece is the word to your motherlandminer league baseball's in your qquart of ice cream of the crop circle of death metal of honorary members only jacket up in dis club foot the bill clinton of brick by ben folds five alive and wellwater under the bridge to nowhere's waldoe eyesenhower you doing today show us your tits just a matter of time is of the essential elementary schoolhouse rock and roly polead the way to your hearts over atlantis the seasonal allergeez loweezer's blue album leggo my eggoing to the countrybaked hamburger and freye of the stormy days ahead of the gameboy meets world peace of mind your own business cardnial gibbons highway robbereese's pieces of april showers bring may god be with ulysees s grant my wish you were here of cornflake placid, ego, superego dog gogo dancer in the dark dark house of leave me alone shark week on discovering america the beautifull of shit happenstants on a log into myspacadetta jamestown, virginia madison square garden of eden of foxy brownnosing a song of sixpence none the richard the third eye blind as a batboy the musical number the star trekky recordless phoney baloney high sock it to me myself and isosceles triangullah gullah island hopping-pongo and perdettough as nail salontrow row your boatmeals on whels on the busstop in the name of loveseat your vegetable and cane sugar rush hour traffic jambalayajah wood you be my valentine's dazed and confusebox of chocolates get out of hereing aids epidemicahbod crane wifi networkingclass ring around the rose petalpusure things fall apart of your worldwide web of lies
this is probably the best way to articulate the fact that we are going INSANE over here in seasia.
loveyouall
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Things that happened in Cambodia:
At Angkor Wat, there is a constant swarm of people trying to sell you everything in the world. A common tactic is to ask your name, and then say "Oh ok i remember you you buy from me later!"... One time Jaki introduced herself to "Chicken" who was trying to sell her water. On the way back from the temple, two hours later, Chicken approached Jaki and said "you remember me you buy from me?!" And Jaki said, "No, sorry, I still have my water, thanks" And Chicken yelled to Jaki as we walked briskly away: "SORRY DOES NOT BUY MY WATER! YOU TELL ME LIIEEES JAKI!"
Emily got propositioned by a deaf, male prostitute.
We discovered a park where there a bunch of superhip, breakdancing six-year-olds, thousands of inflatable toys, and groups of about a hundred people doing group aerobics.
We met people named: Ouch Mean and Say Something, two border guards, and Coy Sneakily, a bank teller. What?
All in all, Cambodia is beautiful and sad and hard and fun. Now Malaysia.
At Angkor Wat, there is a constant swarm of people trying to sell you everything in the world. A common tactic is to ask your name, and then say "Oh ok i remember you you buy from me later!"... One time Jaki introduced herself to "Chicken" who was trying to sell her water. On the way back from the temple, two hours later, Chicken approached Jaki and said "you remember me you buy from me?!" And Jaki said, "No, sorry, I still have my water, thanks" And Chicken yelled to Jaki as we walked briskly away: "SORRY DOES NOT BUY MY WATER! YOU TELL ME LIIEEES JAKI!"
Emily got propositioned by a deaf, male prostitute.
We discovered a park where there a bunch of superhip, breakdancing six-year-olds, thousands of inflatable toys, and groups of about a hundred people doing group aerobics.
We met people named: Ouch Mean and Say Something, two border guards, and Coy Sneakily, a bank teller. What?
All in all, Cambodia is beautiful and sad and hard and fun. Now Malaysia.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
our country tis of thee
last week we ditched our packs and rented motorbikes and biked all around the blovean plateau
!
and we didnt crash. well not really. and no one got hurt. actually, thats a lie. more on that later
BUT
first we spent the night in a place called tadlo that was complete travel-fantasy perfect: a small town, surrounded by waterfalls with thatched-wall bungalows and hammocks and a lot of livestock.
we wandered, hiked, climbed down a broken 20foot bamboo ladder and stumbled on a huge waterfall, tucked away surrounded by jungle-forest-perfection. jumping in screaming "we are the luckiest girrrrllls i cant believe this is reallllllllll this is utopiaaaaaa," we did what any four 20-something, free-spirited girls would do: we took our clothes off, went skinnydipping.
this was a great idea...until (as emily climbed on a bunch of rocks to get to her stuff) , our bungalow-mate wandered up to our same "deserted" waterfall.
failblog. so we all laughed hysterically and he eventually got the hint, and disappeared back into the bush.
crisis averted.
then we look up.
and see a village, ages 5-80, gathered on the top of the waterfall to stare at the buttnaked whiteskinned farangs...
FAILBLOG.
((also, somewhere in this tadlo trip, emily acquired a cold, emily got a sicknasty gangrenous-looking spider bite, and jaki sprained her ankle. like in a major way. but fear not moms, the spider bite has gone down, emilys taking zicam, and i guess we'll take jaki to the doctor if the massive yellow-purple bruising and inability to walk doesnt go away?))
we also spent the 4th of july on the plateau, in a town called pakxong. we tried to celebrate 'merica but had some pretty poor substitutes. it was too high an altitude for watermelon, theyre not really into fireworks, and baked goods or barbeques aint happening.
so we drank beerlao, lit a white glow stick, ate pineapple and marble-cake-from-a-bag, and made an american flag on an old bus ticket.
now, after a 18-hour travel disaster, we're in cambodia, at angkor wat.
lets just say when you read in lonely planet that a border is corrupt, and it will be scammy and a total pain in the ass and you will be miserable---theyre not lying. take their word for it.
also angkor wats the most beautiful thing either of us has ever seen.
love you all; think/talk/want to talk/dream of you all the time.
!
and we didnt crash. well not really. and no one got hurt. actually, thats a lie. more on that later
BUT
first we spent the night in a place called tadlo that was complete travel-fantasy perfect: a small town, surrounded by waterfalls with thatched-wall bungalows and hammocks and a lot of livestock.
we wandered, hiked, climbed down a broken 20foot bamboo ladder and stumbled on a huge waterfall, tucked away surrounded by jungle-forest-perfection. jumping in screaming "we are the luckiest girrrrllls i cant believe this is reallllllllll this is utopiaaaaaa," we did what any four 20-something, free-spirited girls would do: we took our clothes off, went skinnydipping.
this was a great idea...until (as emily climbed on a bunch of rocks to get to her stuff) , our bungalow-mate wandered up to our same "deserted" waterfall.
failblog. so we all laughed hysterically and he eventually got the hint, and disappeared back into the bush.
crisis averted.
then we look up.
and see a village, ages 5-80, gathered on the top of the waterfall to stare at the buttnaked whiteskinned farangs...
FAILBLOG.
((also, somewhere in this tadlo trip, emily acquired a cold, emily got a sicknasty gangrenous-looking spider bite, and jaki sprained her ankle. like in a major way. but fear not moms, the spider bite has gone down, emilys taking zicam, and i guess we'll take jaki to the doctor if the massive yellow-purple bruising and inability to walk doesnt go away?))
we also spent the 4th of july on the plateau, in a town called pakxong. we tried to celebrate 'merica but had some pretty poor substitutes. it was too high an altitude for watermelon, theyre not really into fireworks, and baked goods or barbeques aint happening.
so we drank beerlao, lit a white glow stick, ate pineapple and marble-cake-from-a-bag, and made an american flag on an old bus ticket.
now, after a 18-hour travel disaster, we're in cambodia, at angkor wat.
lets just say when you read in lonely planet that a border is corrupt, and it will be scammy and a total pain in the ass and you will be miserable---theyre not lying. take their word for it.
also angkor wats the most beautiful thing either of us has ever seen.
love you all; think/talk/want to talk/dream of you all the time.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
We were on a bus with:
a monkey
a monk
a Laos girl who vomited on Jaki (like a few times?)
another Laos girl who also vomited a lot.
the song "apple bottom jeans"
intense energy drinks called m150 that we downed and then talked about the WHOLE WORLD.
now we are in vientiene. there are lots of sweet vats here. and french things.
tonight we are getting on a hopefully less dramatic but longer bus. going to southern laos. riding around on motorbikes. we are the happiest girls. we love you all.
a monkey
a monk
a Laos girl who vomited on Jaki (like a few times?)
another Laos girl who also vomited a lot.
the song "apple bottom jeans"
intense energy drinks called m150 that we downed and then talked about the WHOLE WORLD.
now we are in vientiene. there are lots of sweet vats here. and french things.
tonight we are getting on a hopefully less dramatic but longer bus. going to southern laos. riding around on motorbikes. we are the happiest girls. we love you all.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
puhzone
ok since were only in laos for a couple weeks, em and i will probably just share a sim card
SO to reach us
the country code is 856 (wtf right?)
annnd the number is 84404023
sooo you should be able to dial
8568440423
(maybe you have to put a + at the front i dono)
if anyone tries it, will you post and let me know if it doesnt work? i dont really have any way of knowing if these things are functional
LOVEYOUALLLLLL
SO to reach us
the country code is 856 (wtf right?)
annnd the number is 84404023
sooo you should be able to dial
8568440423
(maybe you have to put a + at the front i dono)
if anyone tries it, will you post and let me know if it doesnt work? i dont really have any way of knowing if these things are functional
LOVEYOUALLLLLL
2 become 1 (spice girls reference, ya dig?)
hiya hiyaaaa
ive been in ko tao, which is an island. i lived with this fisherman named 'a' who was amazing and taught me a bunch of thai and i went snorkeling and saw SHARKS but didnt freak out.
but then there were tarantulas in my room and i did freak out.
then i got on a 6 hour ferry-12 hour bus to bangkok-12 hour bus to nong khai-crossed the border-12 hour bus to luang prabang. which is where i am now
so since im in laos, i need to get a new sim card, so i'll have a new number soon and i'll put it up here.
AND most importantly, elsa gets here tomorrow and emily gets here the 28th so finnallllyy this will be one cohesive blog and we will all be traveling together.
missssssss you all
lovejaki
ive been in ko tao, which is an island. i lived with this fisherman named 'a' who was amazing and taught me a bunch of thai and i went snorkeling and saw SHARKS but didnt freak out.
but then there were tarantulas in my room and i did freak out.
then i got on a 6 hour ferry-12 hour bus to bangkok-12 hour bus to nong khai-crossed the border-12 hour bus to luang prabang. which is where i am now
so since im in laos, i need to get a new sim card, so i'll have a new number soon and i'll put it up here.
AND most importantly, elsa gets here tomorrow and emily gets here the 28th so finnallllyy this will be one cohesive blog and we will all be traveling together.
missssssss you all
lovejaki
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