Ric and Sharon Bruce On a journey with you to Thailand
Many people know about our previous hike on the Appalachian Trail… when we walked from Pennsylvania to Maine after we got married. The past four days we were continuing the hike south, completing 50 miles more of Pennsylvania. I am in the process of typing a journal of our time on the trail. For now, here are some pictures. Check back later for the play-by-play.
Where were you a year ago today? We were in Cambodia… and we can prove it since I wrote in a journal quite a bit while we were there. For the first time, we’ve made the journal publically available here. Below find the basic breakdown of the days I’m publishing: Some names and locations have been changed or omitted to keep everyone honest.
Check out the full journal here:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfwbvr29_138hp9mp3hj
Schedule 5-29
03:00 AM – Sharon wakes up
04:00 AM – Ric wakes up
08:00 AM – Detroit to Dallas
12:30 PM – Lunch in Dallas
02:00 PM – Flight to L.A.
08:00 PM – Meet everyone in L.A.
11:30 PM – Flight for Cambodia
Schedule 5-29
05:30 AM – Wake up on an airplane over Laos
11:30 AM – Middle of a short flight to Phnom Penh
12:30 PM – First Cambodia car ride
03:00 PM – Lunch with missionaries
04:00 PM – Palace
05:30 PM – Wat Phnom
07:30 PM – Eat dinner at the riverside
10:00 PM – Crash
Schedule 5-30
03:30 AM – Rooster crowing
05:30 AM – Finally fall asleep again
07:30 AM – Wake-up call, authentic Khmer breakfast
08:30 AM – Killing Fields
10:30 AM – Russian Market
12:30 PM – Jars of Clay restaurant
02:30 PM – Toul Sleng (S-21 prison)
05:00 PM – New Central Market
07:00 PM – Thai Coffee Shop (Black Canyon Coffee)
08:30 PM – Bedtime
Schedule 5-31
05:00 AM – Wake up, rooster, catch up journal
06:00 AM – Shower, Van pickup
06:15 AM – Meet Vannak for the first time
07:00 AM – Leave for Northern
12:00 PM – Arrive in
12:30 PM – Eat at Thai/Khmer restaurant
02:00 PM – Check into guest house
02:30 PM – Cultural village
06:30 PM – Pizza for supper
09:00 PM – Crashed in an Air Conditioned room… so nice
Schedule 6-01
05:00 AM – Wake up
06:00 AM – Breakfast at the restaurant downstairs
06:45 AM – Leave for Angkor Wat
07:15 AM – Bayon
11:30 AM – Eat, blisteringly hot, Micah sick
12:30 PM – Angkor Wat
02:30 PM – Nap at the guest house
03:30 PM – Floating village
06:30 PM – Eat, watch Aspara dancing
08:30 PM – Guest house
09:15 PM – Sleep
Schedule 6-02
06:00 AM – Wake up
07:30 AM – Leave for remote province
11:30 AM – Arrive in province, eat
02:30 PM – Motorcycle Ride
03:45 PM – Arrive at ministry location
04:00 PM – Talking with missionaries Ralph and Kim
09:00 PM – Bed
Schedule 6-03
05:00 AM – Rooster (deja vu?)
07:15 AM – Pancakes!
09:45 AM – Village tour
02:00 PM – Visit other missionary family with
03:30 PM – Return to Ralph and Kim
05:00 PM – Badminton
07:30 PM – movie, testimony
09:00 PM – Bed
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