Siam Reap 2015

      In February 2015, we left for Siem Reap, Cambodia. We slept there four nights, and then returned to Taiwan to sleep one night in a hotel in Taoyuan and one night in Taichung. I wrote journal only one during the trip (on the plane going there) and did no reading of the books I brought with me choosing to glace at an American baseball magazine I bought at the airport and Ancient Angkor, a book I bought from one of the many children selling outside temples for $10 us; I could have gotten it for $1 if I had waited.       The first day we arrived at dusk, were picked up in a Mercedes Benz van along with five other Taiwanese and were driven by our exclusive driver and tour guide to the first of nine restaurants, four of them buffet. Despite eating food deemed safe from contamination, Leona and I still had diarrhea from stomach virus, hers beginning Thursday night and mine the night we returned to Tao-yuan where I spen...