Haha, I had the idea to pretend not knowing how to eat a sandwich, so I told Pov to start filming. There were two kinds of butterflies there we've never seen before in Cambodia, but the more beautiful ones never stopped flying, and the orange/white ones would only stop for one second at a time, making photography nearly impossible. We just had to sit still with the phone ready to click, then time it perfectly.

I think you and Pov are both very good insect photographers, the two of you could easily make a coffee table book of all your beautiful images.

We saw on Google Maps there is a big waterfall on the Thai side too, but for now the border crossing is just a trail through the forest, only open for Cambodian and Thai citizens. COVID has kept this border completely closed though for now.

The sandwiches are a fun road-trip snack, fried bean curd skin with lots of chilies, tomatoes, and cucumbers. Rice is good on the road too, but sometimes on a quick day trip we don't want to bring the stove along.

I think the biggest gem was to Srey-Yuu smiling, that doesn't happy very often. I know she thinks I am a dork, and I am no doubt, but those people are the most fun. Fingers crossed we get some land along that creek.

I once heard an interview with a famous artist a long time ago, and he said the worst thing to have is no limitations when it comes to art. If someone just told this guy to make some "good art," he wouldn't know what to do, but tell him a price limit, where it will be displayed, etc., then the creative juices start flowing.

Our only concern about this area are the landmine dangers, but it's kind of an unspoken rule in Cambodia to not venture off the trail.

Most of the waters in Cambodia are brown for the same reason, but high in the mountains it is mostly government land and forest, so the rivers are very cool and clean.

Similar-ish to Banh Mi, but the sandwiches are kind of an invention of mine. I do like Banh Mi, and sometimes we make pickled carrots, daikon, and even a homemade pate to do our version, but these sandwiches are bean curd skin stir-fried with onions, garlic, chilies, ginger, shredded carrots, etc. We make the stuffing at home and then assemble on the road with fresh cucumbers chilies, and lime/juice soy sauce. A perfect snack for a relaxing day on the water.

That is an interestingly long way to ask a simple question, but yest we enjoyed the trip as is made clear in the post body.

The borders of Cambodia are very porous, and only 100 meters to the north or south there are gravel roads that just cross over into Thailand, and they are hardly patrolled on the Cambodian side. The times I've traveled to Bangkok from Cambodia, I use Khmer migrant transport services, and I notice those vans get stopped at military checkpoints all along the way, subject to a lot of scrutiny.

It is a little slice of heaven, can't believe we have a small chance at getting some land there.

I love GIFs, especially when we find ourselves paying by the GB for internet. My post payouts aren't good enough to justify a 3speak upload under the current circumstances, I would probably have net loss of $5 per video 😁.

GIFs to the rescue though, and with good text GIFs can really add to a story, even if only 4 or 5 seconds long.

We are having fun exploring all the new places around our new little outpost town.

The short videos are GIFs, a special file type that seems to upload to Hive without issue as long as they're smaller than 14MB each. I wouldn't recommend creating them in Shotcut, the program I use, unless you're a bit computer savvy. Otherwise, there are plenty of websites that can help you create them online. Giphy being the top one I can think of.

It was incredible, and there aren't many places in the mountains of Cambodia with proper roads and electricity.

We'll be back this weekend if things go as we planned.