🛺 Road Trip To The Capital 🏕️ Steung Kach to Phnom Penh 🌇
We've left Steung Kach for the capital Phnom Penh, but brought our camping gear along to cut out potential guesthouse expenses.
An Arduous 350km Journey 🛺
We have many reasons to go to the capital, but mostly for iPad repair, to exchange our broken washing machine, and to send my PC back to the USA for a warranty replacement. Knowing life always throws us curveballs at home, we decided it better to leave in the evening and go as far as we could before camping along the roadside.
If we tried to leave early in the morning, a series of events would happen that would prevent us from departing until 3 or 4pm. That's life I guess, and because somebody always needs something or wants us to attend something in the village, I decided we'd have better luck camping.
Being so busy, I had zero time for photos, so I asked my wife to snap pics with my phone so that I could make a post before falling asleep, but of course that didn't work, so here I am in the morning trying to make a post before we hit the road again. I have to keep the content flowing so this journey can be funded, but apologize for the image quality in these shots.
Tent Time 🌇
After feeling a nice mix of hungry, weary, and dirty, I pulled over at a known picnic spot to call it a night, somewhere short of Phnom Kravanh. Pitching a tent in the darkness is the most ideal of circumstances, but if we had set up camp in the wee evening hours we'd have not gone far from our home.
Monkey-B became the designated illuminator of things, and while I set up camp, my wife reheated some Cincinnati chili I made before we left and cooked some pasta to go along with it. As I write this last sentence, my family members are all staring at me and sitting in the tuk-tuk eager to go, so I better call it quits and report again from Phnom Penh. Farewell my fellow Hivers. Oh, almost forgot, lots of farts in the tent last night, but nobody has taken responsibility.
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Goodbye my friend and I hope you and your family arrive safely in the capital, and also everything you plan from home can go well.
Btw, I admire you even though you are in a busy state but you still take the time to create content and also manage this community to keep it alive 👍👍
So far so good, we've exchanged our washing machine and everything else is going as planned. Thank you for these kind words, I am honored.
I like the photos that you want to return, I really like your trip
My wife usually has better photo opportunities because I am always busy driving or setting up camp, but I try to take a few pics every day even if they aren't good quality.
That certainly is a long journey. I hope all goes well in Phnom Penh. Is that Hanuman hanging at your windshield, protecting your family?
Thank you, haha, that is actually an apsara dancer air freshener. She is my pretty lady that smells good and makes my wife jealous 😂.
Traveling over 300km is quite far. I have not been camping for more than 30 years. The last time I camp was during my university days.
Apparently I haven' t been camping in far too long, my back didn't agree with my thin sleeping mat.
I don't think that camping will agree with my back too. I just recovered from slipped disc.
I honestly envy you and your family. What I wouldn't give to drive so far in a tuk tuk and camp along the way. That's the life I crave. I just don't think the part with the aftermath of Cincinnati chili would be too exciting haha.😅
Adventures are here waiting for you should you ever choose to come visit. Life is so affordable here that we can pretty much cancel all plans with one day's notice and host guests for as many weeks, days, or months that they choose to stay. Unfortunately after 12 years I haven't had a visitor yet, but I think I'm more likely to get a visit from a fellow Hiver than any friends/family from the USA.
I have joked a few times about an ASEAN Hive Community summit, and now that we have land and can host lots of guests, it could actually become a reality some day. Who knows, maybe we make an car-sized batch of chili and make our own symphony of farts.
Do camping during breaking the journey, this is an exciting life.
The only way to do it in one day is to leave at 2am and do most of the driving before the sun gets too hot. I prefer to break the journey up, but on the way back I always drive without stopping because I miss home.
Many people dreaming of this, and I'm one of those people.
Cincinatti must be a smelly place.
P.S. Nothing wrong with the pics. Gives it a very natural look.
It actually is a smelly place, but not because of chili farts, that's mostly dirty industries and chemical plants. I was even once went to a nuclear disaster site there during a scooter rally. Apparently there was a fake dog food factory that was actually doing some nuclear stuff, a cold war relic that leaked some radiation in the area.
Well, a journey of excitement for the reader, and tiredness for the writer I guess. This is the second time I see you piloting the ape, and the speedometer hitting redline is absolutely marvelous scene. It's not about the actual speed, it's about the pointer pointing direction that keeps the excitement going!
It's ok because you guys are vegan. I don't know how vegan farts smells like, but I guarantee my KFC fart superceded your entire family farts.
Haha, yes, especially when it comes to heading back home and away from the capital, it's full throttle all the way, no matter what gear I'm in. I think fart science could be enough content for a post of its own. Monkey-B is Queen of the SBD (Silent But Deadly) farts, not sure if those exist in Malaysia or not 🤣.