the good luck phone

Well, we said goodbye to Etta today, maybe until the summer on the cape. It was fun travelling with her, she was really level headed and thoughtful about everything. In fact if it weren't for her "Planning"(whatever that is) and reading guide books we probably wouldn't have known to go where we ended up. Hope she fares better with her on again/off again health and has a rad time in Japan.
Happy Chinese New Year and Tet to everybody. Today on the bus down from Seam Reap Genevieve won a brand new telephone with built-in answering machine in a new years day good luck raffle. Now were back in Seam Reap trying to figure out what to do with it. They wouldn't take it as a trade for our hotel room, but we've found that if we carry it around it becomes a useful tool in confounding the hawkers and mototaxis. they say "Hallo Mister! Want Motorbike?! Where you go?!" and we say "Want to buy a phone?! Good price for you!" which breaks down their whole hustle.. guess thats good enough of purpose for the good luck phone for now.