Nice Pyle Gomer

Here it is! You all may not know why you're looking at, but I see months worth of spring cleaning sprees. Granted I would be unable to move these things on a scooter, but a regular car would do the trick. I have managed to sell, donate, or throw away about 2 Subaru loads of stuff. What you see in the picture is really everything I own (minus my 3 bikes, of course).
I've spent the past few months giving away my furniture, throwing away questionable t-shirts from way too long ago, and forcing numerous kitchen related items on my my sister (including my beloved omelet pan). Last week I sold Gary, my camping buddy/Grannie grocery getter/snow plow. It was a little tragic to watch the Subey drive off and leave me in the dust, so I treated myself to a strawberry milkshake as a pick-me-up. Ah, much better.

I guess I'm almost ready to go. All I have to do is learn to speak Khmer, figure out how to teach English to non-native speakers, and find out how to use one of those squat toilets. Piece of cake, right? Oh, and I forgot to mention...I've heard that Cambodia has snakes. Seems that I've had my fair share of snake sightings this year already. Not okay with me!

A few months ago I went to the reptile shop as part of my self-prescribed ophidiophobia treatment. I held that little guy on the left for a while, which was barely tolerable. Then the shop guys brought a big boa out of its cage and it started hissing at me. I just about lost it when it gave me the "I'm gonna eat you" look. The second run-in was with some funky road kill....gross. Then a few weeks ago I nearly ran over a huge bull snake on my mountain bike. Outta my way!

This weekend I'm racing again and real nervous that all of the ice cream I've been eating lately will not actually make my legs pedal fast. We'll see. For anyone who's interested (Meg and Lieschen), I'll be riding in Winter park on Sunday. Just assume that yes, I would in fact like a beer at the finish line. Here's a pic from the hill climb race two weeks ago. I jumped up to the Expert class this summer and I'm now racing with the fast girls who completely kick my butt on the climbs.

Thanks for reading my blog everyone. I will try to post somewhat regularly about my adventures abroad. Maybe I'll even throw in a picture or two of Angkor Wat.