Today we drove from Siam Reap to Battambag - about 3.5 hours to go 140km. Battambag is a major rice producinbg area so we saw many rice fields being harvested and many strange trucks and assorted vehicles delivering bags of rice to rice mills. It is also freedom day or something like that and there seems to be a lot of trucks filled with men waving flags and playing strange music.
Our hotel in Battambag is very nice. Has a regular shower and a great pool. Cost is $15.00/night and it really is a 3 or 4 star facility.
Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day. We meet up with ten or so local Rotarians and head out to a very poor area to distribute about 280 bikes. We need to put the pedals on all of them. Walter Ried and a local dentist will be teaching dental hygiene to the children while we finish the bicycle assembly. We are down a few team members due to illness so it will be hard work. The pool and beer at the end of the day will be our reward.
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Bracebridge and Gravenhurst Rotary Club's documentation of the January 2012 trip to Cambodia.
Here's hoping the illness dissipates and the bicycles assemble without problems. Send pictures of the distribution if you can!
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Hope Dave or Linda are not one of the few that are ill. Mind you I know that Dave likes to eat strange things so it would not surprise me if he was ill. I like the pictures that have been posted that is a nice touch. Please post pics of the bikes being assembled and delivered.
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