Skip & Gabi Yetter: writers, travelers, foodies and former US media executives share their adventures, experiences and stories from their round the world travels after they leave the treadmill for a world of adventure
Never mind the boat ride from Phnom Penh to Chau Doc, which started an hour late and stuttered through two “Ooops! We’re out of gas” delays before depositing us ashore in Vietnam. The boat trip was late, ridiculous and at times alarming (particula…
» Read moreRecreation of a recent “customer service” phone call I received on my mobile from Metfone, our internet service provider at home in Phnom Penh. This is fairly typical of the process-oriented, chase-your-tail conversations we have nearly every day,…
» Read moreAs if clambering around a handful of Bagan’s 3,000 ancient temples wasn’t enough. As if it wasn’t satisfying enough to spend the day in a horse-drawn cart with our guide Min Thu, who explained in great detail Bagan’s extraordinary display of iconi…
» Read moreThere are two moments that stand out in my mind from my trip to Siem Reap province last week with DPA (the NGO where I work). The first was during a meeting with a group of villagers inside a wooden hut on stilts, where I sat on a hard wood floor …
» Read moreI have just moderated a conversation between my 18-year-old self, a consortium of global economic doomsayers and Warren Buffett. This fascinating interaction took place between my two ears, prompted by a horrible nights’ sleep and an absurd Facebo…
» Read moreOn the way to work this week, we passed a man carrying a duck upside down. A few minutes later we saw a chicken tied by its leg to the tree. The strange part wasn’t the duck and the chickens. It was that we didn’t see them as unusual. Farm animals…
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