Running and Hopping in Asia

Tim and Tracy's adventures in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Tracy is on crutches after falling off a ladder while Tim is geared up for three weeks of events with the "World Interhash" - a gathering of the "drinking club with a running problem".

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I'm a Brit/Yank who has now settling back in Scotland with wife Tracy after living in New Zealand and traveling in Australia for a couple of years. Having contributed random thoughts on life in the Antipodes I now blog some impressions of returning to my native Scotland after 22 years away, and also document my marathon training to keep myself motivated. I post pictures at www.timcooke.com which also help to tell the story of our travels.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Why Cambodia?

Now revealed, the real reason I have always wanted to travel in Cambodia. One of the great punk/ new wave songs: "Holiday in Cambodia" by the Dead Kennedy's dating from when the country was bottom of the list of the world's tourist destinations.

So you been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type dont crawl

Play ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul

Its time to taste what you most fear
Rightguard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear

Its a holiday in Cambodia
Its tough, kid, but its life
Its a holiday in Cambodia
Dont forget to pack a wife

Youre a star-belly sneech
You suck like a leach
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch
So you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you

Well you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son.

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where youll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, etc.

And its a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul......
Pol Pot!

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