Roads of Cambodia

After my long, but great, trip I am home resting in Japan. I have talked to a few people already, and trying to summarize my trip has been difficult because there are so many things I did and saw that are worth telling about. So I will try to show here what I did, and hopefully stick a few good stories in too.
I decided to write the first blog about the roads of Cambodia. We spent a lot of time traveling around on the roads, mostly in tuk-tuks (a covered cabin pulled by a moto) and buses. Tuk-tuks are the way most foreigner goups of people travel around in Cambodia. There are a lot of them and are pretty cheap. I think the record number we fit into one was 7 people. Boy are we cheap! Anyways, they were fun to ride in for the first 5 or so minutes, then as I felt the gritty dirt in my mouth and on my face, it became less fun. To go to the school and between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap we used buses on the bumpiest roads I have ever been on. We saw many interesting things as we drove through the cities and small villages in Cambodia. Here are some of the memorable moments: cow traffic jams, water buffalo chilling in peoples front yards, families riding on motos, lots of dirt, potholes, playing chicken with oncoming vehicles, no sense of which side of the road Cambodians actually drive on, kids peeing in the open fields, tons of durian fruit for sale, and finally, pigs and chickens drugged and hanging off the backs of motos going to market. The roads in the citiy of Phnom Penh were busy, and I think I saw only one traffic light in the whole city, but it was like organized chaos. The cars, motos, tuk-tuks, bikes, and people moved fluidly around each other. We saw a few accidents, but luckily we were never involved in one.