Jeff Buckley could cover a range that most people could never reach. When Jeff sang he took you to another dimension. Grace. An album but also the one word to describe the way he sang and performed.
His life would abruptly end due to an accidental drowning in Memphis, TN. He is remembered at the Memphis Zoo with two plaques dedicated to him at the tiger exhibit.
Where the Mekong River empties into the South China Sea is called the Mekong Delta. The areas of the Mekong Delta are service by a series of canals and rivers. Here life revolves around the water. The floating market is where people could get anything from chewing gum to watermelons.
The water drawn from century-old wells is the secret to Hoi An's famous Cao Lau noodles. There is a chewiness in these noodles which is the result of letting the rice soak in a mixture of lye and the famous well water before it is ground to form the noodles.
The Irrawaddy Dolphin is an oceanic dolphin found in the freshwaters of lower the Mekong River between the border of Laos and Cambodia. The Irrawaddy Dolphin has been placed on the extinction list with only 100 dolphin remaining.
These dolphins are protected and therefore, not hunted or captured. The Laos people believe these dolphins protect them from the dangers of the crocodile.
It is a the symbol fo Cambodia. Built for King Suryavarman II in the 12th century, Angkor Wat was built as the capital city and his state temple. The name means "city temple" and was built as a dedication to Vishnu.
It took us three days to tour the grounds. All day.
Delicious cuisine. Fresh, aromatic, colorful and tasty all describe Khmer cooking. So I decided to take a cooking class to learn how to make my own pumpkin soup, curry, mango salad, fried noodles and even a banana dessert.
I will turn forty this year. To ring in this new chapter in my life I have decided to create a "sand pail list". This is a list of forty things that I have to do that I have not already done yet. Does not matter what it is, but it can not be something I have already done. And they all have to be completed before I turn forty-one. There are certain restrictions, though. Since I fly airplanes for a living, I have to make this a little bit more challenging. So, I have to actually go to places that I normally will not go to for work. Train, plane or automobile. Since I fly the smallest aircraft in the fleet, that still leaves me with a good amount of places that I could go to. I also can not visit a country I have already been to. I gotta go to new places.