All the dumb things
I don't normally highlight other blogs in this dog-eat-dog blog world - only kiddin' - but I recommend you take a quick peek here and read about Phnom Penh in January 1975 and one particular teenager's fascination with things he really shouldn't be doing! Part three of his story should be online very soon. I love the photos.
posted by Andy Brouwer at
9:25 AM
4 Comments:
Thanks for the link.
I've just finished part three.
Sometimes I can hardly believe how stupid I was when I was young.
Hey Razz - I don't think you were stupid at all - just had the pulse of an adventurer. A truly amazing, very interesting story. And the pics are great! I've read the three parts all at once. Just missed some background info on you back then: who you were, what were you doing in Cambodia, how came you chose Cambodia as a tourist destination three months before the KR takeover etc. PS - Thanks for Andy's generosity in supplying the link -- Sam Son
"I don't think you were stupid at all - just had the pulse of an adventurer."
Thanks for being so generous but I still think what I did was very dumb. I certainly wouldn't do it nowadays and I'd be horrified if I had a kid that who was as stupid as I was at that age.
"A truly amazing, very interesting story. And the pics are great!"
Thanks for kind words.
"what were you doing in Cambodia,"
Teaching English very occasionally.
"how came you chose Cambodia as a tourist destination three months before the KR takeover etc"
I had heard from a Belgian guy that it was possible to hitchhike by air there. Plus I was running out of money and I had also heard that one could teach English there.
I have written a few other background stories on my blog and if you do a search under Cambodia you will find them if you are interested in reading more.
Razz, you showed the courage many war correspondents comfortably installed in their deluxe hotels and reporting from 2nd hand lacked. I guess the Cambodian guy was the source of many of them, besides providing liaison for the American embassy. Great story, great photographs. Powerful graphical depiction of roadside corpse as a 'mannequin'. And the mortar rounds, what a close call!!! 'War is sweet to those who never experienced it', said Pliny, the Elder. ---- Pieter Djkema
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