Background

I figured it'd be easier/less intrusive to do a daily blog update than to send out mass unsolicited emails. So here goes....

1 AM Friday 10/22, Greg Restinas and I boarded a plane to Hong Kong on the first leg of our trip to Cambodia.

It'd started a few months earlier, we were having dinner and got to talking about travel, we agreed we should plan a trip somewhere. I had recently done a brainstorming session with my small group at church about things we could do together, and I had suggested a trip, like a for real go-somewhere-cool trip. So when this idea came up with Greg I wanted to follow through on it. Plus I hate statements like "let's do lunch" when you really have no intention of doing it. When we both agreed we should do it I was committed to follow through.

That same dinner we discussed where would be cool, and we agreed that somewhere in Asia would be good.

Last piece, I had recently met someone who was working at a school in Cambodia for a year or two, and my church contributed to some interesting charitable projects in Cambodia in the past. The last two times I'd gone to a developing country I'd organized the trips around visiting charitable projects out of my church and I'd really enjoyed that: inspiring, get to meet the locals, etc.

So boom, trip to Cambodia.