🛺 My Last Days In Cambodia 🛫 Off To The USA To Visit Family & Solve Immigration Problems 🛃
I spent my last days in Phnom Penh just vegging in the hotel room, spending quality time with the family, and looking for a place to store the tuk-tuk.
🛺 Yin Sarak For 24/7 Auto Storage 🚙
It took several days of research to find a suitable place to stash the tuk-tuk in Phnom Penh while I am in the USA. My wife can't drive it, so therefore she can't take it back to Steung Kach, but we had already heard from a cousin that there are auto storage places in the capital. Unfortunately the place our cousin linked us up with said that his business is better for overnight parking because there are so many rats.
We were told if we use the tuk-tuk daily it wouldn't be an issue, and most other monthly parkers use their cars daily. We needed a somewhat hygienic and pest-free location to stash the tuk-tuk, so we began researching online and through word-of-mouth, and I randomly stumbled upon Yin Sarak, $30 per month, very clean, secure, and professional.
One Last Dosa Corner Trip 🍴
Monkey-B is now a fan of idly, and prefers them to dosas. On our second and last trip to Dosa Corner, Monkey-B opted for Sambar Idly instead of her usual dosa choice, a true connoisseur of South Indian cuisine 😄. My wife and oldest daughter are still indifferent to Indian food, but Monkey-B and I share this passion because we are spicy I guess 🌶️.
Bye Srey-Yuu 🖖
Of course I also took the family to several restaurants that Srey-Yuu and Pov like, mostly to Sumatra, an Indonesian restaurant near our favorite budget hotel in the Tuol Tomporng area of the city. Because Srey-Yuu is not a fan of being the subject in photos, I decided to snap a picture of her while she was distracted taking a picture of me. She'll be 14 years old in July, hard to believe my little Srey-Yuu is a young lady.
Peace Pov ✌️
My last pic in the tuk-tuk on the way to the airport was of my lovely wife Sreypov. Although I am more than upset that governments, borders, and visas are stupid and nearly useless, and because of this my wife and kids may not be able to ever meet my parents unless they make the choice to come to Cambodia one day, this separation is almost voluntary, just a short stay in the USA, perhaps 4 weeks, then I'll be back home in Cambodia. I had some visa complications and needed to leave and re-enter Cambodia, and the timing was such that I was already planning a trip to the USA this summer to see family members.
I've already been in the USA several days as I write this post, so hopefully the next post you see from me will be of 'Merican stuff.
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Well that sucks, but hopefully the four weeks goes by quickly and you'll be back home.
If you find yourself near Delaware let me know and I'll find a way to take you out for a coffee.
I am making the most of this trip so far. The weather is so beautiful here, but I'm freezing to death because everyone has the A/C on full blast in the cars and homes. It is so bizarre to be freezing while looking at the nice weather on the other side of the glass, but that is 'Merica. Well, Kentucky is a bit far from the northeast coast, but I won't forget your offer should I find myself anywhere near you.
I have some Cambodian in-laws in Providence, RI, that's about as close to you as I have connections.
Im not a man who is against fees and taxes from governments but its how useless they are sometimes because of how worthless the process is, a decade ago getting a passport would take an entire morning until the building burn completely and they restructured the process and make it efficient but why they had to wait for something like that to improve it, sometimes all this laws, rules and process are just stupid dont matter from where you see it, hope you have a good trip ✌️
I agree, I don't mind to pay taxes and fees, especially if the money gets used for a reasonable cause. But this modern world has made travel restrictions more and more archaic, and now even in my own country I have to use a passport to fly because I am no longer eligible for a driver's license with a special star. Without the star you can't fly, and this makes me feel like a foreigner in my own country, so strange. I will make the most of this trip no matter the circumstances though.
Glad to find out that you will only be away for a month or so, this time :<)
A month is more than enough, already missing Cambodia. I struggle to socialize when all the furniture in a house is pointed at a massive tv with volume on full blast, just can't get a conversation going. I tried to explain Hive blogging to my dad in less than 30 seconds, and he was snoring halfway through.
I totally get that. Two weeks in The Netherlands was exhausting for me but also because peoples routines and 'busy' schedules and all the planning were so contrary to my life in Portugal.
The TV was hardly ever on though, my mom can easily do without.
I actually took her out to seee an arthouse movie ( something I have been doing, every now and then, since I started studying film, over 2 decades ago ).
Stay strong! ;<)
P.S. I never even tried to get my dad or mom on Hive and I didn't get any of my family members in crypto, aside from my twin sister and she has nothing left, unfortunately, due to 'needing' the money.
First of all, welcome to... Oh wait, welcome home. I got the exact same feeling when I was at my home town thinking when I'm going home to Kuala Lumpur 🤣 weird perspective when one already homed to a different place for a long time.
Is there any procedure required to observe for the tuk-tuk storage? Like disconnecting the battery? Seal off the air ducts? I have experience during the lockdown, in less than a month, rat find it's way to chew down my air-condition system 😭
The flooded idli looks fantastic. Now, waiting for what's happening in the Merica 👍
It is strange that home isn't home anymore after all these years. Lifestyle-wise, I am accustomed to Cambodian living, and I just can't adapt well to American life, mostly the aircon at full blast and trying to make conversation with distracted tv watchers.
The tuk-tuk should be okay, we found a relatively clean and modern auto storage facility. I hope there are no issues because it will only be around 4 weeks. We can roll start it if necessary should the battery be dead. I just hope and pray no rat nests or chewed wires.
I hope you have a lot of fun in USA with your family and friends.
I will do my best, miss you so much Pov.
I hope that this trip can be fruitful man. I hear you as far as visa issues are concerned but it always makes me a bit more upset when there is a family involved. Fingers crossed that your visa issues will be behind you upon your return.
I get most upset when I hear 'Mericans say "Just have em' come over illegally like the Mexicans, they're just letting em' in." When I hear this I realize Americans have no idea how immigration works or the struggles an illegal alien faces day to day. I wouldn't wish the American immigration process on my worst enemy, it has been the single most depressing and stressful thing I have ever dealt with.
This is why I try to keep my bitchin' about visas over here to a minimum. A vast majority of the people in SEA wouldn't even be allowed to the USA at all, let alone for long periods of time on a tourist visa.
Hi pakhabar @justine Parker..how is your condition right now after arriving in your hometown..does your brother still know you..haha..and do you often communicate with your wife to Cambodia..And have a nice day in America I hope you are always safe there.😄😃😆
So far so good, I am meeting family now and enjoying time together. I do miss my family very much back in Cambodia, and I prefer my way of life there. It is so cold in the houses here because the aircon is too strong and now I am a little sick.
I hope it works out for you. !LUV the process even when it is alot.
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Sure wish my family could've joined me on this trip, but government bureaucracy has made this impossible for now.
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And before you know it, she'll be 16 🙈.
Time really does fly.
By the way, do u need a license to drive a tuck tuck in Cambodia?
16, can't even wrap my mind around that number yet. A tuk-tuk is treated as a motorcycle by Cambodian law, so a moto license is all that is required. I have an American moto/car license, technically not valid in Cambodia, but it's just cheaper to potentially pay a fine every years than to get a Cambodian license.
Yeah, if the fine's less than getting the license, why not take the chance?
I was beginning to get worried, thought I was gonna have to remind @buildawhale to downvote my post. Luckily he remembered, and I can't thank him enough for taking potential earnings away from a working class family. Hive is sure a lot like real-life, just a new form of trickle-down economics.