Mike's Thoughts
Mike's Thoughts
Michael Perry
The website is about writing. A little of this and some of that. Always some about living now in Cambodia and some things about previous little endeavors. Maybe a time spent in Vietnam or just traveling Southeast Asia for some years. Coffee and beer figure prominently.
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This blog post covers two days spent in Phnom Penh. I decided to just write the one post and put down whatever. We leave here at 930am on 19 August. The 21st we will catch the bus to Kampot. On our way today I got to see green season...
There’s some beauty to this place. Love the downtown and bridges. The Wat Preah Prom Rath វត្តព្រះព្រហ្មរ័ត្ន temple shines. An older place across the street from Noi Cafe. I’ve visited any number of times. The temple has a few creation...
Soon we go for a nice longer trip. I was thinking about how I want to blog the days in each place. I like letting blogposts roll over to the next day or so. I think I’ll write a single post for each place and add in photos and...
Some days. Maybe most days. Ok. All days there is this going. I love going out for coffee mornings. When we first moved to the house, choices were limited. I enjoyed the same places. And I would do as I do now. Cycle through them. Then...
Somewhere along the line like after I did day one and then something else a few times I ended up writing markdown files. This was good. I still enjoy the act of it. It’s a freeing sense that the app I use is not the one I must use. The...
Just the last minute thing. Off to viva for some time. Always a nice break to just go. Can sit here with draft beer. There’s other people. Easy to sit here for some hours and beers. Enjoy this change. Tomorrow gets busier. We get the bus...
In a few days we will get out of here for a week. This time we do multiple Cambodia places just because. First up is a few days in Phnom Penh. No big tourist reasons to go. We have gone a few times or more. Since my wife is Cambodian...
It’s really Friday night so I’m cheating a little. It’s one of the quiet nights here so I decided what better time to write. Feel my time whittle away but so quietly. Moments fill in that last forever. Today I walked some walk. Got lost...
This month is last month we can go before I get a new retirement visa. It’s the one step each year I need to be involved with Cambodian immigration. Pay the money. Wait two weeks. Get it back good for another year. Most people use a visa...
I started this a few times. It’s been some months since we have gone anywhere here in Cambodia. For a long time we did the quick trip to Battambang but we have gone so many times I got bored with the whole thing. I can’t really leave...
Today I decided to do this easier walk around the neighborhood. I like having coffee at Coffee Bean first like I’ve written and tooted before. Then it is a walk through the big local market and seeing all the usual chaos. People combine...
Somewhere today between the third and whatever beer, I found out that time away really matters to how I feel. I caught up with my acquaintance Bill today and we talked like usual. Heavy on family, life in cambodia, people. This time more...
Some days I sit in the room. Feel time quietly slip away. Other days I decide that it’s time go to beer. I did my good practices. A wonderful walk. Some nice yoga. Some time spent just relaxing. The room starts closing in. I’m not good...
Sometimes it feels like life here has slowed down to the speed Cambodia thinks I want to move at. I’ve noticed more than a few times have no clocks in the house. When there’s something about time it’s my iPhone or my wife’s. Or my...
Today was another one of those not so rainy season mornings and then the rain coming down in the afternoon. Since we live on dirt roads, I always hope the rain just stops by early evening since it gives some time for the roads to open up...