Notes from Asiapalooza

-visited major world heritage sites like Angkor Wat and the beach where The Beach was filmed

-watched a 6-year old boy dance on a beach with a flaming baton

-gotten rather excessively intoxicated on Koh Phi Phi

-been invited to a party by a Thai masseuse

-listened to a soft-rock rendition of "Oh Holy Night" in a Thai cab at 4:30am

-flown to the wrong Cambodian city and had to purchase last minute flights to the one that really is next to Angkor Wat

-waited out a monsoon holed up in a tuktuk with our driver

-witnessed the abrupt end to a Khmer cultural show when Chinese tourists leapt onstage to pose for pictures 

-watched more American TV than I had in the past year in a Cambodian hotel room

-decided that Singapore looks more like the CGI mockup of a city than an actual city
-become bunk bed buddies with an elderly Pakistani man
-successfully crossed the street in Hanoi without being hit by a motorcycle
-made an unplanned overnight visit to China when my flight from Hanoi was delayed, causing me to miss my connecting flight to Seoul and forcing the airline to get me a 72-hour visa and put me up in a 5-star hotel
-cried my way into getting a free half-hour of computer use in the hotel's business center because I had no money and no way to contact anybody to tell them where I was
-traveled to places I would have never dreamed I'd see
-had, overall, a most excellent adventure.