Mikes Thoughts

Otres Beach Interlude

We spent two days here and my wife got to see her friends. I walked along the beach in different directions. Today I finished walking to a bridge I wanted to reach. Then I found this rest station not finished with plastic chairs.

I liked this view.

Otres beach bridge

From here I can walk back to the what is called the downtown area here. I took no photos there. Just not feeling it.

I guess will be glad to go back to Siem Reap tomorrow even with the long ride. I got to meet my wife’s friends. Honestly glad that’s over. There’s nothing I took away from that. I’m just not good with people. It becomes an effort being around them. So when I reached there I bailed in a PassApp and went home.

I don’t think my wife was happy with how I felt at their house. I felt uncomfortable and wanted to leave from the moment I got there. I guess it’s how I am. I have no expectations meeting Khmer people. I just go with how I feel. If I feel good then that’s it. Feel bad that’s it. Most times I guess I am between the two. That’s like the purgatory of relationships. Not the best place to just be.

So it’s easy to just go. I figure I gave my wife her time here. Did what she wanted. Managed to last until I left her friends house. I can say it was with a palpable sigh of relief to be away.

There’s no day to day writing. No sense of finding things. Even again since I was here in 2018 but just about everything is gone or changed so much I only rarely see a sight I can recall.

Anyways that’s it. My interlude. Time wanes. Words have left the neighborhood.