Hi everyone , hope i'm not boring you all to death with my stories. Anyway decided to leave Nam for a while so off to Cambodia Friday. Might return to Nam after . Need a rest from this crazy country , why anyone fought wars over it beats me. Was recommended a good restraunt to visit so had name and address written down caught a motorcycle taxi who promptly ignored what i wanted and took me to a massage parlor. (obviously a commission thing) So now i just get off bike tell them to go make love to themselves dont pay and walk off. This tends to cause some angst and interesting conversations but i am sick to death of this happening all the time. So next hailed a cyclo bike. Before i showed him where i wanted to go he said ok ok 20,000 dong. Told him i wanted to go to friggin Hanoi which got his attention. Showed him address and he took me to a friggin pool hall. Same thing told him to make love to himself as well. Never did get to the restraunt. There are going to be a lot of pissed off Vietnamese making love to themselves by the time i leave Friday but hell not my fault. Anyway found a restraunt to eat and met an interesting lady from Byron Bay NSW. All she does is travel throughout Asia so a great wealth of knowledge . Unfortunately she has left for Hoi An but we swapped emails so we can keep track what's happening. She told me she has run into hundreds of lone travellers like me and her.Most common reason marriage breakdown so we agreed we should try and get as many together as we can somewhere and have a bloody big party on a beach somewhere. Ok just joking. Getting on fine with the young backpacker groups. The males see me as an old guy who is no threat to their chances with the girls so they are comfortable and buy me beers(dickheads) and the girls find me safe and interesting to talk to (hey my competition is 20 year old males with a mental capacity of 10 )which the girls tire of after a while. i end up talking to the girls why the macho guys talk bullshit and get pissed. See there are benefits in geting old and wiser. (well maybe just older). Anyway to end may i quote " Edward Abbey" May your trails be crooked ,winding ,lonesome ,dangerous leading to the most amazing views. May your moumtains rise into and above the clouds. Take care guys Love Darryl