I enjoyed a delirious sunrise and four dollar cup of coffee while strolling around the Taipei airport on a three hour layover. I only slept a few hours on the 14 hour ride to Taipei and as I write this it's now 26 hours later, ouch.

Welcome to Cambodia! Every once in awhile I get a wave of dizziness that causes me to strain my eyes to keep balanced and upright. I feel like I may faint, but then I just concentrate on not falling over and pull it together. Serious jet lag. I'm just holding out for about two more hours. We've got someone taking us to dinner and as you know an escort makes dining in a foreign country sooooo much easier. Mmmmm, pan fried squid in a green pepper corn sauce, 'twas delicious. Silly to say but, food is better when you're in the proper latitude and longitude using local ingredients.

I'm staying at the Ruffles Royal in Phnom Penh. It's a pretty luxury hotel, especially by Cambodian standards. The gardens and swimming pool are gorgeous. Too bad I'm working or I'd be lounging about enjoying the amenities and luscious scenery.

I'm loving the traffic chaos. Drivers just go, in any direction and with no real attention to the lines painted on the road, though they do stop when the light changes. However I have only seen a few street lights or stop signs. There's five or more scooters per every bicycle, car, "tuk tuk", or truck on the road. Most scooters have one or two people but some have families of five and they are carrying baggage! It's like a crazy engineered visual ballet with everyone confidently holding their choreographed position. If anyone hesitates there'd be a huge pile up. Amazing but It seems to work out.

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