Update: still backpacking

We're still on the road working our way across Russia, but we're getting near the end of our backpacking phase and we should be settled in St. Petersburg in the next week. We didn't make a lot of stops across the country - it can get a bit too hectic packing up and leaving every 24/48 hours and distances are quite large in Russia. Instead, we narrowed things down to a few key places:

Ulan-Ude
Arshan
Tomsk
Vladimir/Suzdal
Moscow

Lots of onion domes, lots of icons. In a week or so we'll start putting up a few posts with photos.

Update – Posts both new and long-overdue

There are a number of blog entries I've been meaning to do to wrap up the Cambodia portion of our trip.  This is just a quick note to say that I've finally finished them and let you know where they are.  

They're bookends to our trip - two at the beginning:

Day 79 - Tue Jan 20 - The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21)

Day 82 - Fri Jan 21 - Choeung Ek "Killing Fields"

...and three at the end:

Day 103 to 104 - Fri Feb 13 and Sat Feb 14 - Killing time in the 'Penh

Days 105 to 109 - Sun Feb 15 to Thurs Feb 19 - PP -> BKK -> HKK -> Huizhou

Li’l Red Knife - RIP

Update

Just a quick note to say that I haven't disappeared or stopped drawing my pictures.  We're still in China but blogger has been blocked by the country's firewall and it's hard to get access to this site right now.  

So far, I've managed to get up the following post:
- Days 180 to 181 - Friday May 1st and Saturday May 2nd - Xi'An and the Terracotta Warriors

More pictures soon!

Update: Cambodia posts

I'm working hard on getting the Cambodia posts up and getting the blog back on real time (<- was it ever?)

Here's a running list of the posts that are up so far - I'll update this list of links as new ones are available:

Days 83 and 84 (Siem Reap)

Day 85 (Angkor Wat)

Days 86 to 89 (various wats)

Days 90 (Bantea Srei)

Day 91 - Preah Kahn

Days 92 and 93 - Siem Reap

Day 94 - trip to Kampot

Day 95 - Kampot caves

Days 96 and 97 - Bokor Hill Station (<- very cool)

Days 98 to 102 - Kompong Cham

Update: (pretty much) Home at last

We're finally back in Huizhou as of yesterday afternoon and are getting settled in.  I think we get to see our university-provided apartment today!  It'll need a bit of cleaning, etc, so it will be a few days before we officially move in and we're crashing at Dre's place until then.  Over the next few days I'll be working to get the blog up to date, though we've run into a small picture-resizing roadblock that we're currently trying to find a way past.

New posts soon!

Update: wagons ho

Our bags are packed and we're heading to Hong Kong via bus this afternoon to catch a 6PM flight to Bangkok.  We have one night there near the airport and then on Sunday afternoon we catch a flight to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  The Cambodia leg of the tour is scheduled to last until February 15th when we'll work our way back to Huizhou via Hong Kong.  As always, I'll paste up notes as we go from place to place, depending on how easy it is to find Internet access.  

Onward!