After barely getting settled, we are on the road again back to Phnom Penh for immigration documents and visa-related stuff.
🛺 Our Real Home Is 3-Wheels
Traveling around Cambodia without 600kg of luggage in the back of our Ape is a whole lot easier, and we found that our trip back to Phnom Penh from Pramaoy took only one full day of traveling. This was much more manageable than the two and a half days it took us to reach Pramaoy with a heavy unstable load.
The @kidsisters have settled back into tuk-tuk life, often with Sakana sleeping and Srey-Yuu serving as security guard while Pov and I do shopping or run nearby errands. An iPad sure is a great tool in times like these, especially for Srey-Yuu who doesn't fall asleep after 5 minutes in the Ape like Monkey-B does. She can do her homeschooling and Hive stuff all while listening to podcasts from the comfort of our tuk-tuk.
🪟 Room With A View
At the moment we're staying with my Cambodian in-laws, @sreypov's half-sister @ahleap, whom we've successfully onboarded to Hive, along with her daughter @mich.brmey and her son @seyha.mich. They have a house on the Tonle Bassac River a short commute south of Phnom Penh. My favorite part of her house is the kitchen sink window, which has no glass, making it a perfect picture frame for the ever-changing river landscape below.
⛽ Petrol & Diesel Hustlin
This family earns their living independently from various streams of income, the main ones being WING (a kind of more affordable Western Union for use within Cambodia) and a petrol-diesel business. @ahleap's husband rides his 100cc motorbike and trailer with a slew of empty jugs about an hour outside the capital.
When he returns, all the jugs are full with Vietnamese petrol and diesel that is normally intended for use in Cambodian government/state-owned vehicles. This source allows them to sell fuel at prices less than that of the corporate gas stations, a pretty impressive feat certainly not possible in the USA, where mom & pop fueling stations died out 50 years ago.
#Engrish Time
While in a random store searching for anything of interest, I came across this lovely stove, which may or not be a plant by the CCP. If this stove has some kind of ethernet plug or bluetooth capabilities, it certainly is an "Intelligence Gathering Can Stove."
🧑🏭 First Ape Repairs
When we bought the Ape,I noticed what I thought was initially a paint crack on the left side mirror mount turn out to to be a crack in the sheet metal. This had to be repaired with bondo, wet-sanded, and then repainted. It was a pretty professional job by Cambodian standards, and the repair was free as part of the warranty, so that made me happier with the worst wet-sanding job I have ever seen.
Also, I was given no owner's manual when I bought the Ape, and Piaggio is ridiculous with these things, asking $75 for a PDF version online. I simply wanted to know things like the recommended tire air pressure and what kind of transmission and engine oil weights to use, etc. The certified mechanics had no idea of the oil-weights, and instead pointed to the barrels. I took pics and noted they're using 20W-50 for the engine and SAE 90 for the transmission.
The Cambodian In-Laws Are Embracing Hive 👩💻
It seems every evening here at the in-laws' place Hive is the topic of conversation. Pov, Srey-Yuu and I have all been teaching as much Hive knowledge in person as possible, and I hope to see more and more Cambodians showing interest in crypto and decentralized social media.
✌️ On The Road Again Soon
The tuk-tuk is slowly growing on the family despite the loud diesel engine. I think time will prove this was a much better choice than overloading a smaller tuk-tuk with our family and all of our camping gear. In another 3 or 4 days we'll be headed back to Pramaoy, so until then we'll continue running errands and shopping for various things.
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