This will have to be short because we are not done with all the paperwork and processing, but after spending 30 hours and sleeping in the trucks at the border we have managed to at least get into the country. We are now in a small town just South of Kunming. Here we will spend […]
Author Archives: Steven Shoppman
Let’s go back to Cambodia
August 16, 2007 – 5:29 am
It has been a busy couple of weeks so we have fallen behind on Photo Galleries. We are eagerly working to get them caught up. Here are a couple while we get finished…Sihanoukville http://www.theworldbyroad.com/photos/gallery2embedded.php?g2_itemId=7407&Ban Lung http://www.theworldbyroad.com/photos/gallery2embedded.php?g2_itemId=7327&
Keep your eyes on the sky, for us.
August 15, 2007 – 8:26 pm
By this point there are probably not many that are still in the dark about Mars making its closest appearance to Earth, well basically ever. After recently receiving many emails regarding this celestial phenomena, the first response from the TWBRs was excitement that our vantage point would be ideal in some remote town while on the road. […]
The ever changing crew
August 13, 2007 – 8:25 pm
Recently we said goodbye to Steve Bouey’s father John. After traveling for 3 weeks through Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, he is currently on a plane from Saigon back to his home in Oakland, CA. It was a good few weeks and the TWBR knowledge of composting and organic biosolids has certainly increased as a result of his stay […]
It’s actually quite easy.
August 11, 2007 – 5:28 am
A week does not go by without hearing the question, "How are you two funding this adventure?" The usual answer if we have the energy, takes somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 minutes. Of course we go through the usual explanation of the generosity of Stevinson Toyota, followed by the list of the rest of the […]
What is that smell?
August 7, 2007 – 8:09 am
At home we all have different ways of doing our laundry. Some of us use a certain type of detergent with a certain smell, others use a special rinse or dryer sheet. As a wee lad friends of mine would end up with my clothes and depending on who it was, their parents would wash the […]
10,000
August 6, 2007 – 8:04 am
Just a little notice for those of you that may not have seen on the homepage. We have broken 10,000 miles! Along with this we have now also visited 10 different countries. The miles should start to turn over more quickly in the coming months. Our exact entry date into China should be available to us […]
Remote borders
August 3, 2007 – 3:46 am
We have reached the last town before the border of Laos here in Cambodia. Internet is pretty much non-existent here, so this update will be brief. After 3 hours in Stung Treng, our quest to get across the Mekong to the last stretch of highway into Laos has come to an end. One night here […]
The new definition of a road.
August 1, 2007 – 9:45 pm
NH is basically the same denotation as the I for interstate in the US. Here in Cambodia a NH or National Highway is not exactly the same as our definition of an interstate. These roads can vary from the first road that we drove on here from Poi Pet to a pretty well taken care […]
Cambodian Kickboxing and Phnom Pen Traffic – Photos
July 30, 2007 – 7:38 am
Just got another couple of photo galleries up. Kickboxing Match in Phnom Pehn http://www.theworldbyroad.com/photos/gallery2embedded.php?g2_itemId=7070& Traffic in Phnom Pehn http://www.theworldbyroad.com/photos/gallery2embedded.php?g2_itemId=7165&
