Random Observations

1. Cambodian vendors are the most aggressive and annoying in the world. It can not be an accretive business practice to blanket hound everyone who looks like a tourist and passes your location. 2. The flooding in Cambodia is unreal – we are talking knee deep water just off the main intersection in town. 3. […]

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The Art of the Pressure Sell

Who amongst us has experienced someone using the ‘pressure sell’ technique? I am counting on the answer being most of us in some way, shape, or form. For some, it comes the first time they go to buy a car. Your salesman explains how he can only offer you the car for X price, if […]

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Londytown…and Watford

**Arrived on September 23rd and Departed on September 28th We originally didn’t have London on our itinerary because Chris has frequented there (and Watford) for work several times in the past few years and Val had been with girlfriends while in college. With our plans in limbo between heading East or West and with practically […]

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Random Observations

1. Where is the effort: items seen within 10 ft of each other – pot-holes, earth-moving equipment, dirt & rocks. 2. Fifteen countries and counting and still one universal word……Pizza. Never translated or modified and always available. 3. Watching the 2011 Rugby World Cup, who knew it was such an interesting sport. Oh yeah, everyone […]

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Sitting in Split

** Arrived on September 17th and Departed on September 23rd After our long week at sea we found ourselves at a crossroads. We were awaiting some information from back home that would determine if we continued heading east to Southeast Asia or doubled back through Europe. It seems crazy to write, but it felt like […]

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