🤳 Mountaintop Selfies With Pov & The Kid Commuters 🛺
The slowest climb up the mountain pass is when Pov rides back to Steung Kach from Thmor Da with the kid commuters, so I broke up the journey with a mountain pass summit photo session.
Monkey-B & Mey-Yii 👯♀️
Mey-Yii isn't always a happy kid, but if she's well-rested and had breakfast, I've never seen her come out of the school without a smile plastered on her face. She's become Monkey-B's best friend whether she knows it or not, and these two are inseparable when at home.
School #2 & Summit The Pass ⛰️
I can't remember why my wife joined me on this trip, it was already a few days ago, but I believe it was to do some shopping in the town. I do know that she doesn't enjoy my new style of commuting where I set up a mobile office for 4 hours in the tuk-tuk and find some abandoned land at the edge of the town to park and work on. It's hot, sometimes muggy when it rains, and very crammed, so I don't think she'll be joining me on this commute anymore.
After swinging by the other school on the way home to get 4 more kids, creating a total number of 2 adults and 7 kids onboard, we climbed very slowly up the mountain pass. Alone in the tuk-tuk, I can return home in 35 minutes, but with the 9 of us onboard, the journey takes just over an hour. I am only working with 8 horsepower of diesel fury anyhow.
After 30 minutes, we'd arrived at the summit of the steepest pass, and I could see that morale was low from the super slow ascent. I surprised everyone by pulling over and announcing it was "selfie time." After I said that, I immediately realized they weren't selfies because I (the photographer) am not in any of the photos.
The last (above) photo, I asked everyone to "make a crazy face," and this elicited some laughter and silly poses. After that, it seemed my passengers were rejuvenated and feeling goofy, so we piled back in and continued the back half or our journey.
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Discussing the problem of mountain climbing for me is very exciting, because I always want to choose if I travel to the mountains.
And about their friendship is very good, we hope they can be friends and forever until they grow up.
Because a complete friendship is very difficult for us to maintain, surely one day there will be something that can separate them, which we hope they will always be together.
Before we all traveled in the tuk-tuk together to school, they all weren't friends, but now all these kids get along with each other very well.
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The little ones are happy going to school together each day.
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Wow, the eight of you can squeeze into the tuk-tuk? You seem to be having so much fun riding the tuk-tuk
There are enough seats for everyone, but it sure is slow going up the mountain with that many passengers.
talking about climbing on the mountain, it is indeed a very pleasant thing, especially accompanied by several children, if I'm not mistaken seven children, and you and your wife there are 9 people....
can your tuk-tuk ride the nine people, but what is clear is that you can ride them all hahahaha...
talking about friendship, if we compare friendship starting from small, hopefully their friendship will never end,
but I really salute you, lately you have been carrying so many burdens, but you can still carry them... at least I know a little bit what you are going through now about your life problems in the #hive section
or in your real life,
You can hide something from all of us..
but to a @alvonsohiver even though you hide it, but I know about the sadness that befell you all this time...
what makes me salute you my friend @justinparke you are really a tough person and able to keep quiet and you can save a thousand languages,
I slightly corrected or answered why are you silent,,, and even then if I am right....???
You are silent, it's all for the happiness of the children and a wife you love, and you are willing to bear your own burden for them.
its title. ,,,, for you and the baby,,,,, hehehe.....
no matter how heavy the load you think, you stay relaxed and smile, sometimes you bring out your humorous expression to make them smile...
I always hope that you are always healthy, and all the activities that you do are always given smoothness by the almighty God, amen....
Yes, 9 people inside the tuk-tuk in total. Yes we had some bad HIVE luck recently, and wife posted a little about it. I think you know my personality well, and because I come a farm in the countryside of the USA, I was raised to be very stoic and never complain too much. No matter how tough things get, I can always reflect and give thanks just for the chance to live and feel.
Wow, you fit everyone inside of the Tuk Tuk? That's pretty impressive.
I even take a wooden stool to place in the middle of the bed of the tuk-tuk, but the kids always say they are fine and never use it. It is absolutely a slow climb riding 9-deep though with only 8 HP propelling us forward.
OMG, you actually brought out Srey-Yuu's lovely smile in one of the pics! Amazing! 😮 😁
Mey-Yii's smile is absolutely radiant in that pic where she's coming out of school! And Monkey-B's smile is always so adorable and easily-given! 💜
That was smart, to briefly stop for everyone to stretch their legs and have a few minutes of fun to break-up the trip home! Brilliant idea! 😃
Srey-Yuu is a tough cookie to crack. You're right too, Mey-Yii's joy when I pick her up is very infectious, she'd already befriended her whole classroom by the end of her first day. Your comment reminds that one of the big reasons of the summit selfies was to share those photos with the parents, I still haven't done that yet.
Summit NOT selfie is good, can be better when you have a long selfie sticks and do wefie with a fisheye attached to the front camera.
Lemme check and see if you can turbo charge the ape. We've done something similar to a Honda cub to squeeze a couple more little pony 🤣
In one of my many rabbit-hole manly daydream episodes, I went into a deep YouTube hole looking for tiny diesel engines that have been turbocharged. I found several diesel ATVs that have been turbocharged, so I know it's possible and that tiny ones are available, but the costs and custom manufacturing would require a trip to Thailand.
I saw recently there is a 600cc 5-speed option for my tuk-tuk, but not yet available in Cambodia, only India and a few other countries. Perhaps when I strike it rich from a $10 HIVE valuation, I can import one of these engines and drop it in 🛺🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💨 .