Skip & Gabi Yetter: writers, travelers, foodies and former US media executives share their adventures, experiences and stories from their round the world travels after they leave the treadmill for a world of adventure
An American guy and his British wife are playing slot machines at a casino in Phnom Penh on a Saturday night. A maintenance worker from Rhode Island named Don sits down at the machine next to them, asks for help in figuring out how to play, and st…
» Read moreReturning from a trip to the men’s room, my gaze fell across the crowded floor at the launch of Velvet Nights, a tony new night club on Phnom Penh’s Riverside. It was an event hosted by Cambodia’s top models from Sapors modeling agency, and tall, …
» Read moreAs I step from the tuk tuk and off the dusty street, a thin Cambodian male opens the enormous white doors, revealing a wide concrete sidewalk lined by two reflection pools of crystal clear water. Lily pads float in the oasis of calm, and for a mom…
» Read moreA rickety pushcart rolls to the front of the soup kitchen and stops. A frail elderly woman lifts a tattered tarp on the back on the cart, revealing two tiny faces. One after the other, a pair of dramatically undersized children slips from the cart…
» Read moreThe longtail boat slices through the inky waters of the Kampot River as a full moon silhouettes palm trees which line the shores, a lunar eclipse taking a bite of the brilliant orb at about seven o’clock on the dial. I lie on my back in the boat’s…
» Read moreOn Ang leaned forward on the edge of wooden sleeping platform, his elbows rested on his lean thighs as he carefully deposited a slim line of tobacco into a piece of writing paper he had rescued from a notebook. He wrapped the tobacco into a perfec…
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