WILDLIFE
Time to wind down Phnom Penh-way for a final kick at the curing phantoms cat. Fresh out of the hospital from the second surgery to my now crab-like hand, and bike-less for a change (I’d left it in storage for 10 days in PP), I decided to hop on a bus. There are dozens of bus companies operating all over Cambodia; most every bus is full to the rain gutters and, more or less, each company is worse than the next. The only time they’ll leave on-time is when you’re runnin’ late. They leave with a belch of black diesel smoke, a wail on the horn and lope down the center of the road all loose in the hips and rolling on spent rubber and next-to-nothing brakes. It was Khmer New Year, their biggest holiday of the year and one that lasts a full 2 weeks for most and more for some. (more…)