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From travel (at) sneaker.net Thu May 17 10:53:21 2001
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 23:58:15 GMT
From: "Nathan J. Mehl, Road Worrier" <travel (at) sneaker.net>
To: memory (at) blank.org
Subject: the next hop


Well damn, I just spent 15 minutes typing out a long travelogue on
Singapore, hit the send button and lost the whole thing to a session
timeout.  Teach me to be verbose.  Feh.

Okay, the short form: it's 7:45am, and I'm at Singapore airport.  This will
probably be the last message from me for a couple of days: we're about to
catch a flight to Siem Reap, Cambodia, and it's rather doubtful that there
will be any internet access there.  We'll be in Bangkok in about 4 days,
and I'll resume contact then.

If Singapore has a non-disneyfied side, 24 hours is not long enough to find
it.  I spent the morning poking through Orchard Road, the main shopping
drag, and then the afternoon and evening tagging along with Miranda and her
agency contacts here as they went on a tour of the city and a night safari,
and the whole time kept looking around corners in a desperate attempt to
find the one unattended pile of litter or bit of graffiti.  No luck. 

Sigh, I think my flight is going ot start boarding soon, so I'm going to
have to do the real Singapore report later.  It's worth mentioning that
everybody I met yesterday kept commenting on how unseasonably nice the
weather was: it was "merely" in the high 80s/low 90s farenheit, with about
90% humidity.  I suspect that I am going to have to be blotted up and
carried out of Cambodia in a sponge.

Talk at you all in a few days,

-Nathan