9.30.02 The "Baraye", a man-made reservoir that is the local beach

9.30.02 Untaa and Gernaut- two Austrians that Brett and Sarya met on the beaches of Thailand

9.30.02 Pizza with Kai- a Japanese man biking across Asia on a $14 US Chinese bicycle- pretty impressive

9.30.02 Mark in hammock on front porch with candles

Marin playing his favorite one-string song

Brett and Chinda working on translating a business proposal for an orchid greenhouse

Brett on Jon's dirtbike in our front yard

Coconut tree across the street from the house; saw local kids shooting at the coconuts with slingshots

Dirt road leading from Rt. 6 to our house

Brett, Sedtha and Rach Sey figuring out paperwork

Buddies- Brett & Rach Sey

AHC seen from the entrance

Sunset over the front gate

Lengthening shadows in the front yard

People on bicycles and dog calling it a day

Chinit getting his first guitar lesson

Scrawny chickens in the yard

Our neighbors- the cows

Butterfly on marigolds

Tonle Sap 10.13.02- floating village

Tonle Sap 10.13.02- Yasu and Mark

Tonle Sap 10.13.02- boy mate riding the bow

Tonle Sap 10.13.02- baby gibbon on "Professor Moriarty's Floating Funhouse"

Tonle Sap 10.13.02- "the peanut gallery" or "the Mr. Burns birds" on "Prof. Moriarty's Floating Funhouse"

Tonle Sap 10.13.02- Mark on boat trying to find shade

10.13.02 sunset seen from corner temple near Angkor Thom

10.13.02 Fumi, Yasu, Emiko, Brett and Mark on corner temple near Angkor Thom

Yasu, Emiko and Fumi (the Japanese dentists) bid a fond farewell

10.17.02 Butterfly on marigold

10.19.02 Chickens in back yard

10.19.02 Neighbors from behind house

10.19.02 Clothes drying in back yard

10.19.02 Back yard

10.20.02 Neighborhood kids climbing the coconut tree

10.20.02 Neighborhood kids playing in the field across the street

10.20.02 Brett's tee shirt from Bangkok featuring the microbes (pronounced "mee-krobe")

10.22.02 Candles floating in the river for religious festival (trust me, they're there)

10.22.02 Wat Die, Sarya, and Sopheap on moto going to the full moon beauty contest celebration

10.23.02 Sarya and Sopheap, 3:30 AM on moonlight tour of corner temple by Angkor Thom

10.25.02 John with baby Rikki at the FCC (Foreign Correspondant's Club)

10.25.02 Brett and Sarya on dirt bike

10.26.02 Va in hard hat (in Khmer literally "lucky hat") after dinner

10.26.02 Sarya and Sopheap blowing bubbles

10.27.02 Two small boats on Tonle Sap taken from Landcruiser en route to Taac Mao

10.27.02 Lunch at Kapong Thom (halfway to Phnom Phen); Cass- #1 beer in Mongolia, bet you didn't know that

10.28.02 Outside shower at Taac Mao

10.28.02 Sun over trees first evening at Jon's house at Taac Mao

10.28.02 Gibbon cage at Taac Mao with tire swings

10.28.02 Gibbon eating fruit at Taac Mao

10.29.02 Lazy day from hammock on pagoda in goldfish pond at Taac Mao

10.29.02 Brett with baby Rikki on pagoda at Taac Mao

10.31.02 Phnom Phen street from Jon's truck

10.31.02 Mieko on "Chaly" moto with baby Rikki in basket at Marin's office in Phnom Phen

10.31.02 Ox cart selling pottery on road from Phnom Phen to Siem Reap

10.31.02 Billboard on AIDS- this needs no translation

10.31.02 Brett and pickup with bullhorn soliciting donations for local Wat

10.31.02 Typical middle class home with children and grandma

11.1.02 The King in lights on our way to the ASEAN expo at Angkor Wat

11.1.02 Angkor Wat lit up for ASEAN expo

11.1.02 Local artists exhibit paintings

11.1.02 Portrait of a culture

11.2.02 Verdant rice fields from Corner Temple

11.2.02 Sunset from the Corner temple take 1

11.2.02 Sunset 2

11.2.02 Sunset 3

11.2.02 Temple exploring with Marin

11.2.02 Jungle temple

11.2.02 Monks in doorway at Angkor Wat

11.2.02 Naga on terrace at Leper King's Temple a.k.a. the Elephant Terrace

11.16.02 Start before first light on the road to Rattana Kiri, an ox cart is a good sign

11.16.02 Pol puts on his driving gloves while the pink pillow sits on the XLR; all is ready

11.16.02 An ancient Angkorian bridge is still used today, dust motes making it look magical

11.16.02 Pol eats a turtle for breakfast; it really does taste like chicken

11.17.02 One of the many ferries to take us across Mekong tributaries

11.17.02 Helmet visor fell off so had to use sun glasses, bleary eyed and face covered in dust when we stop

11.18.02 Thinking monkey at the guest house

11.18.02 Burning leaves and a fresh day of riding in the jungle

11.18.02 "Scooper boats" as I've dubbed them

11.19.02 Gun education poster- very explicit

11.19.02 Wipe out! Steep learning curve riding these roads

11.19.02 Old French colonial bridge looks as if held together by hand-tightened clamps

11.19.02 And the sign said... Rattana Kiri, right this way

11.20.02 Pickup under flowers

11.22.02 Boy guide to mountain temple- said there were something like 900 steps

11.22.02 Landscape from viewpoint on the mountain

11.22.02 Temple monkeys

11.22.02 More temple monkeys

11.22.02 By the Buddha statue, covered in dust, blood sweat and oil

11.22.02 On bridge in front of stupa temple

11.22.02 Old nun keeps vigil at the temple

11.22.02 Gruesome pictures that look like a kid drew them in the temple

11.22.02 Wat at mid day

11.22.02 Mark upon arrival from the Rattana Kiri trip

11.24.02 The fruit to be exchanged during the ceremony

11.24.02 Traditional Khmer engagement ceremony for Brett & Sarya

11.24.02 Congratulations!

11.24.02 Mark & Julian on the porch

11.24.02 Party in the front yard

11.25.02 Brett & Sarya on the Honda XLR

11.25.02 Sign Brett found in a ditch... Cambodia has about 8 million mines and was the most heavily mined country in the world (now it's 2 or 3)

12.6.02 The multipurpose room where most of the day is spent

12.6.02 Dr. Larry speeding to see his first sunset at the corner temple

12.9.02 Monks in the market across from Angkor Wat

12.9.02 Temple food stalls

12.9.02 Angkor Thom gate on the way to picnic at Jon's farm

12.9.02 Jon resting and watching Sarya fan the fire

12.9.02 Sun setting over water buffalo along the road after a day at the farm

12.12.02 Rainbow

12.12.02 Monkey spectators

12.12.02 Elephants watching the Wat racers

12.12.02 Kobal Spean or the "waterfall of 1,000 lingas" where the water is purified before going to Angkor Wat

12.12.02 Sunset at Tah Kaeo

12.12.02 Sunset from the roof of the White House

12.12.02 Dinner at the Ivy with (L-R) Sarya, Te, Shannon, Sara, Sethy, Brett, Mark and Larry

12.23.02 Miss Universe from Panama being given a tour of the hospital by Jon, the Executive Director

12.23.02 Miss Universe, again

12.23.02 Brett getting silly-stringed at his birthday party

12.23.02 Platter of fried tarantulas

12.23.02 Sara eating a tarantula

12.23.02 Colorful wat flags

12.23.02 Sunset over the Japanese bridge at Campong Chom

12.23.02 Mine sweeper in the bush

12.23.02 Praying mantis taking on a straw

12.23.02 Pigs being taken to market- the pigs are force fed sra saa (rice liquor) to comatose them for the trip

12.23.02 Christmas party dinner- the fattened calf

12.25.02 Cambodia from a helicopter compliments of Alex & Mick

12.25.02 "The Queen's Swimming Pool" (I think)

12.25.02 Angkor Wat arial flyby sequence

12.25.02 Angkor Wat

12.25.02 Angkor Wat

12.25.02 Angkor Wat

12.25.02 Angkor Wat

12.25.02 Pete behind superglue bubbles

12.25.02 Pete at corner temple Christmas sunset

12.25.02 Christmas sunset

12.25.02 Luke, Sara & Pete sporting new chromah's

12.26.02 That's what happens when you don't eat your spinach

12.26.02 What used to be the bridge, use your imagination

12.26.02 OOPS- bridge out and rice fields impassible for cars

12.26.02 Walking around the bridge to get a ride on the other side to Poipet on the Thai border

12.27.02 Eels in Bangkok market

12.27.02 Yep, they eat turtles in Thailand as well

12.28.02 Pensive cement man at Wat Pho (Bangkok's biggest temple)

12.28.02 "Stupa" at Wat Pho

12.28.02 Gold-gilted Buddha in shrine at Wat Pho

12.28.02 Happy Thai lion (fact: there are no lions in the jungle- they live in the grasslands)

12.28.02 Super Stupa at Wat Pho

12.28.02 200 meter long reclining Buddha at Wat Pho

12.29.02 A parting drink with friends

12.29.02 Neon and balloons on Khao San Road

12.30.02 Luke's bread man

... farewell cruel world

12.30.02 Last lights in Bangkok

12.31.02 New Year's Eve street party in front of the What? and Le Tigre de Papier- Brett & Kelly at bottom

12.31.02 Sarya & Brett

1.04.03 "I just asked for a shave and, next thing I know I'm a paper mache project"

1.4.03 Colors drying

1.9.03 Full bike at the Wayfarer's Pub: Brett, Sara, Anna & Sarya

1.10.03 Lined up for egg race under the coconut trees

1.10.03 Reflections in moat of Angkor Wat

1.10.03 Silhouette of girl eating corn

1.11.03 Baray- the manmake reservoir turned recreational beach

1.11.03 Not in Kansas

1.11.03 Pigs in basket drunk

1.11.03 The "real" road to Angkor

1.11.03 Sure we can ride two to a bicycle like the locals...

1.11.03 Happy boy in traction at the hospital

1.13.02 ... doing donuts in the parking lot

1.13.03 Orphanage kids helping out at the hospital

1.18.03 Students buying lunch at the Capacity Building project

1.18.03 Wat Bo gateway near the White House

1.18.03 Orange sky over rice fields

1.18.03 Sara, Sarya, Brett & Amber on Corner Temple (color enhanced)

1.18.03 ... sitting on stones set 800 years ago

1.19.03 Nature walk around Angkor Thom complex, a natural balance

1.19.03 Jungle paths and ancient roots; we were being eyed by someone carrying an AK 47 down below the walls

1.19.03 Myriad roots

1.19.03 "The path goes ever on and on..."

1.19.03 NE temple is a firm foundation

1.19.03 Enduring works

1.19.03 Sometimes beautiful in their ruin

1.19.03 Inside an altar still stands erect

1.19.03 Chisel marks where the Apsara's head should be show temple robbers were here

1.19.03 Apsara intact

1.19.03 Amber, Sara & Sarya before the Angkor Thom E/NE gate

1.19.03 Amber, Brett, Sarya, Sara & Mark by the elephants trunks

1.19.03 The other face, Janus outdone

1.19.03 Mark

1.19.03 Brett & Sarya

1.19.03 Amber & Sara

1.19.03 Sara under watchful eyes

1.19.03 There was no Roman arch

1.19.03 Elephant heads from below

1.19.03 Trees have a mind of their own

1.19.03 Angkor Wat in the distance

1.19.03 Colorful jungle spider, steering clear

1.19.03 Where old meets new and puts it to shame

1.19.03 Clouds violets and magenta

1.25.03 Amber smiling in village with baby

1.25.03 Naga bridge

1.25.03 Typical family being helped by hospital outreach

1.25.03 Land mine went off across street from hospital today; British, Canadians, Dutch and Americans gather to learn to play Cambodian poker

1.26.03 Kids play in temple moat

1.26.03 Picnic by the moat

1.27.03 Amber with one of her patients

1.30.02 Mob in Phnom Phen burnt down the Thai embassy and is here burning a flag (AP photo)

1.30.02 Riots followed incindiary comments by PR Hun Sen; a Thai soapopera actress allegedly said Angkor Wat belongs to Thailand (AP photo)

1.30.02 Wild times all around (AP photo)

2.1.03 Year of the Goat- Chinese New Year dinner at Reach Sey's: (CW from BL) Dr. Alia, Amber, Sara, Allen & Robyn

2.1.03 Mexican night at Casa Blanca, brought to us by Sara, Allen & Amber- excellente!

2.2.03 Sarah under cover- real British intelligence

2.2.03 Apparrently two rabbits on the way to Mahendra's chicken farm for his birthday

2.2.03 Real chicken farms means real peeps

2.2.03 Sara & Mr. Bin's daughter at the chicken farm

2.3.03 The play specialist at work at the hospital

2.12.03 White tree through the gateway

2.12.03 Trees take the form of the ruins

2.12.03 Alex's farewell party at CB

2.13.03 Cambodian doc

2.13.03 Paper cranes in mobile

2.16.03 Beauty and illumination in unexpected places

2.17.03 "Without further ado, I present to you the Glorious Galloping Goat of Siem Reap County!"

2.17.03 Mr. Goat

2.17.03 Helm of the sugar cane press

2.17.03 Under a hunter's moon

2.17.03 Just gazing at the night sky is all- "Would you like to live on a star..."

2.18.03 Sophol- baby blue on green

2.18.03 Jen & Sara

2.18.03 Allen & Brett, chillin

2.19.03 Sara's farewell bash atop Casa Blanca

2.19.03 A circle from above

2.19.03 Coccoon time

2.19.03 Chinda keeps time

2.19.03 Rathi, British Sarah and Dmitri

2.19.03 This speaks for itself

2.20.03 Jen walking on carvings in the water

2.20.03 All dressed up for something with the crossbow and everything... but what's the plastic chair doing there?

2.20.03 Waterfall fun fully clothed

2.20.03 The landscape- second growth forests

2.20.03 Dull red sunset silhouettes

2.21.03 Face forever looking out on the moat

2.21.03 Octopus-like, roots draped over temple walls

2.21.03 Old man with broom resting in shade

2.21.03 Big black scorpion

2.22.03 An 800+ year staring contest

2.22.03 Temple entrance almost looks like a lane on a warm autumn day

2.22.03 Buddha statue in lotus position, what's left of it- with the good shape the rest is in it is likely temple robbers took the head and arms

2.22.03 Think- most complicated jigsaw puzzle ever, that's what reconstructing the temples is like

2.22.03 Cezanne would have loved this

2.22.03 Looks like a good place to explore, but those who stray from the straight and narrow here sometimes don't live to regret it

2.22.03 Village kids by Jon's farm

2.22.03 Hospital Anniversary/ Jon's B-day Party held at Jon's farm North or Angkor Thom

2.22.03 Jon's new 3 story house- every kid's dream: the ultimate tree fort

2.22.03 Marin walking across the farm by the mango and guava saplings

2.22.03 A termite mound helps hold up a tarp over the cooking pits

2.22.03 PVC brings water from the stream

2.22.03 Graham (a New Zealander who gives adventure tours), Mitch & Shane (oral surgeons doing cleft palettes for a week, first day in Cambodia)

2.22.03 Micky and Kazumi- Micky came from Tokyo just for the party!

2.22.03 The gang perched up on the second floor trying to catch a breeze

2.22.03 Local kids collect the cans to recycle

2.22.03 Descending sun in cleft between temples

2.22.03 Sun painting clouds before calling it a night

2.22.03 Setting sun turns water in distant rice fields luminous

2.22.03 Sunset silhouettes

2.23.03 Sunrise over Angkor Wat- a day of temple seeing

2.23.03 Deep bass relief of Apsara among intricate detail work

2.23.03 Bass relief in Angkor Wat of Apsara with ornate head dress

2.23.03 Angkor wat from the North

2.23.03 Typical bass relief of war

2.23.03 Bass relief of intricate floral patterns

2.23.03 Bayon temple, which has 54 towers with four faces each

2.23.03 Bass relief of Apsaras in classical pose and lotus leaves

2.23.03 Bass relief of mounted elephants and soldiers going to war

2.23.03 Bass relief of water buffalo and elephant marching with army

2.23.03 Face tower inside Bayon

2.23.03 Many doorways but few walls still standing

2.23.03 Sara's last sunset; many partings