I’m sitting in this retro/futuristic all-white air-conditioned lounge with free wi-fi Internet as slow as molasses in January and perhaps the best banana milkshake ever to make contact with my taste buds. And they are closing in 13 minutes, so I’ll make this quick.

Spending a couple of days galavanting around the largest religious structure in the world (and its environs) has proven to be a good time. Here is where I should have done some research, but I haven’t even had time for Wikipedia.com on this one, but I am going to suggest that maybe Angkor Wat is at the center of global tourist growth. I say this because if I am not mistaken, Cambodia has one of the fastest rates of tourist growth, and every tourist (probably without more than a handful of exceptions) visits Angkor. More flights come in and out of the airport here than out of Phnom Penh, the country’s capital. Again, I heard this somewhere. It hasn’t been verified on Wikipedia.

A more interesting and perhaps well-researched entry to come later, along with some photos, but for now let me leave you with the quote of the week.

Josh (in regards to some stone carvings at one of the temples): Oh, here are some decent carvings.

Me: Decent? Really? Are you sure they aren’t half decent*?

Josh: I don’t think I’d go that far.

* “Half decent”, in Josh’s arsenal of compliments, ranks right up there with “snazzy.”