Monday Evening - March 1 - Thoughts about my trip

Today is our last in Cambodia and we depart for Thailand early tomorrow morning. We travel by private van to the Thai border...unload our bags....exit Cambodia...enter Thailand and switch to another private van...reload our bags......total trip time is 8 hours with a number of stops included. Dinner tomorrow night, March 2, and we officially disband on Wednesday AM, March 3. I depart for the USA at 6:30 AM on Friday, March 5, arriving at Dulles airport in Virginia at about 2:30 PM the same day.

After our last temple visit, we all crashed and burned. Into our swim suits and we laid by the pool...temperatures above 100F. Lunch, a couple of cold beers, swim, and a snooze does wonder for the soul. I traveled to old city Siem Rep via tuk-tuk and finished all of my BLOG reports and downloaded photos. Had dinner and a painful, invigorating one hour foot massage...$7 including tip. Now I'm back at the hotel, sipping a beer and submitting this last BLOG until I get back to the States. I plan on summarizing my trip and highlighting my experiences while describing what I found exciting about each country in my final BLOG.

The following are general comments...check back about March 8 for my final BLOG...

It has been an awesome trip.... gone for 5 weeks....trip lasted 30days......traveling through 4 different countries on 5 different modes of transportation (boat, bus, plane, train, van), experiencing cultures, sights and sounds that I had only read about or seen on TV, ate delicious SE Asian foods from curries to tarantulas to mango salad to noodle dishes to every type of rice dish. I swam in the South China Sea, experienced traffic that I could not have imagined and met many nice people for a very short period of time...especially the children. Buddhism is the same but different, Hinduism is to Buddhism as Judaism is to Christianity....I didn’t know that I knew so little. The advantage of traveling is that you learn from the experiences you encounter.....something that I love to do!!

First, I need to thank my Mom and deceased Dad for giving me the education and wherewithal to be in a position that I can experience these fabulous adventures that one dreams about. Secondly, and most importantly, I thank my darling wife, Ann Marie, who supports my wild ideas and encourages me to chase my dreams....she has never stood in my way. Until my final BLOG...Tom Worosz (Traveler)