Ride For Cambodia?

[Digiamo]

...so this Buddist monk steps up to a hotdog wagon and says:

Make me one with everything

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[BakerBoy]

LOL. So the monk didn't take a vow of silence!

 

[George]

Cambodia 2 was there this morning... now, just Cambodia... both links above are bad...

Just fixed, Joe, they got changed to "Limited" but should have still worked with the link. Anyway, both set to "Public" now. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[TipSTer]

George, pretty cool pictures especially Bamboo train ride that is very low-tech trains...

 

[Digiamo]

These videos show our ride into a community that has been assisted with infrastructure by Sustainable Cambodia.
We were shown agriculture where the initial seeds were donated along with the training to raise these crops. the rest is pretty much the responsibility of the families running these farms. Same with the oxen shown in vid 2. The first one is donated and the first offspring goes to another family and then the procedure becomes fuzzy to me but they seem to be clear about it.
They run a gas lamp and the stove from a cow manure bio gas collection at the second farm.

Wells are drilled and the families are responsible to maintain the system along with a relatively expensive filtration unit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8mPfo0hK-M&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1saENAlcbHE&feature=youtu.be

 

[Digiamo]

A Sustainable Cambodia run school just outside of Pursat where the kids are learning English. Dan, Joe, George and I do our best to teach and entertain them.
None of us knew we'd be getting into a live classroom situation when we arrived at this school, but we went with the flow and improvised.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSTRPyaMws&feature=youtu.be
These kids sure were happy and appreciative of us coming and spending some time with them. I was deeply touched by their show of appeciation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38oU9j2r9Zg&feature=youtu.be

 

[TipSTer]

Danny, Pretty cool VDO's thanks for sharing, you should hop on that water buffalo go for ride.... that would be Epic Adventure! VDO bring back Da good old dayz :bow1:

 

[Digiamo]

Danny, Pretty cool VDO's thanks for sharing, you should hop on that water buffalo go for ride.... that would be Epic Adventure! VDO bring back Da good old dayz :bow1:

You're going to have to demonstrate that proceedure, Tip.
I'll be ready with the Go Pro

Thanks for all the supportive comments.

Here are some of the shots I gathered from the SC tour of the community and schools. Since we were escorted via scooter caravan, I thought it was a very slick presentation. I certainly get the sence they've done it a time or two before us.



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[TipSTer]

I rode them many moons a goes,

 

[Digiamo]

Is that you in the front?

 

[TipSTer]

No, found this pix on Google,

 

[Bigmak96]

They look like they would have loads of low end torque Tip.

 

[TipSTer]

Yeah, also FWD

 

[Digiamo]

We grabbed a train this morning, quite literally.

Took it to a little village called Bamnak where we unloaded all five bikes. Cost us $25 USD to take us about 40 miles. From there we were on dirt mostly for the rest of the day trying to find Chrok La Eang Water Falls.

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[TipSTer]

George, Bamboo train did driver control belt tension with a stick of wood? what a fun train ride.... Cool pictures!

 

[lectricmojo]

No, found this pix on Google,

You crack me up Tip!! I thought it was you too !!

 

[Digiamo]

George, Bamboo train did driver control belt tension with a stick of wood? what a fun train ride.... Cool pictures!

Yes its a stick which adjusts the tension on the two belts which propell the track car.
I have a video showing the whole shabang, the small engine and the little tracklike craddle it sits in and the rikkety car we are loading five bikes onto. I thought, " No way this can work for a three hour ride with six people". Well, it worked pretty good as videos will show and there was at well over a dozen people on the train at some points. As it pulled out there were local commuters pilling on smilling at us as we looked on trying to smile back through our amazement that what we thought was a car dedicated to us and our bikes, now turned out to be a free for all. It was fun and everyone took it in stride. We shared our bread, water and fruit with everyone and probably won some brownie points somewhere along the line. They smiled at us a lot.

I'll never forget it.

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[TipSTer]

You crack me up Tip!! I thought it was you too !!

Yeah Keith, that picture is very close to my innocent kids days. I would skipped school gone out to rice fields ride those water buffalo all day long with friends, we would have buffalo race and it would ran in muddy pool while I was on it, got shower with muddy water and the buffalo would just laid/rolled in to the mud! fun old dayzzzz

 

[SupraSabre]

I don't know, but it sure looks like the operator is on his cellphone. Hope there weren't any train/road crossings that you had to worry about!

 

[Digiamo]

He was trying to determine the oncoming train timing. We sat at a switch siding for twenty minutes in order to let two cars full of wood and people go by. We slowed for cows, Water Buffalo and dirt road intersections. There were no paved ones during the three hour tour.
If it weren't for that one siding, one of the cars unloads and removes the car from the track to let the other go by, all out in the middle of nowhere. Judging by the piles of wood on the other car, it would have been us.

Once we got rolling and done laughing, it was a very exciting and fun experience.

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