Along the Road

We are heading to the city to pick up John Watts. We are excited about having a visitor on the Ship of Life for a week. We will tell you more about John later this week. In the pictures, the fields are full of rice. At the peak of the rainy season, you can see how high the Bassac River is and the green field next to it. This is a beautiful time of year when all the fields are green. They were doing some road work and we were interested in their way of distributing the gravel. Basically, cars and trucks just flatten it. We felt sorry for the moto drivers because I had my only motorcycle accident (in the states) by hitting gravel. The pagodas are flying flags because of Pchum Bun which is a Khmer holiday where the people are suppose to visit (and take gifts) to 15 different pagodas. After next week, the crew will have some days off because of this Buddhist holiday. gail