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Everybody is on your side

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You here to do better? Everybody’s on your side! 🙂

Never Always Comes Tomorrow

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What a hard day today…I was trapped in the folds of the world-class hospitality of the ‘NordenHouse’ outside of Banlung in Ratanakiri… in a word; way the fuck up there. I wanted to leave by 6… but breakfast starts at 7, and I’m not usually such a weakling but Neesa, the owner, and his place, are both so quiet and magical that it was flatly impossible to beat it til handy 8.
And a long day ensued. From Banlung I rode thru ( I couldn’t make this up) : ‘Kaching’, then ‘Chrop’ then ‘Vealrump’ and finally got off my bike… virtually in tears (just fatigue and heat and shit) in ‘Pongmoan’. (more…)

AGENT GREEN

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AGENT GREEN
It’s hard to imagine a green more green than new paddy rice. Young Cambodian corn is in the running as is the foliage on a happy rubber tree. I just rode through Kratie (pronounced ‘Kratcheeay’) province where latex is where it’s at and there are thousands of hectares of rubber plantations – the trees standing like ranked battalions of wounded and bleeding soldiers.
It’s cashew country too and those trees are not particularly green. They are in fruit right now though and their dun-green leaves are set alight by the scorching orange or deepest yellower than yellow fruit. It could be a question of contrast, as it’s actually the end of the dry season. I can’t imagine how green it is during the monsoon. Or it could be because I look at the world through amber lenses which tend to bump up the green.
The otherworldly white Ibis standing sentry over the paddy just to point out to you what color means. (more…)