Mikes Thoughts

between now and then

One of the things I’ve watched is this some diminishing desire to write here of late. I started writing on going to Vietnam but I doubt I will publish that post. Sometimes not even the flesh is willing to stop and start. I get fed up with things here and more gets written in the journal. To be clear it’s not life in Cambodia which I generally like but it is more like the current reality and how things go. So I decided to just stop dragging it into the blog.

leaving when?

I leave on 16 July for Saigon. What I have left are little things really. The big thing was deciding to go on my own. To push away from having to consider another person’s desire to not go. I want to go see friends there. To find the little piece of what Saigon used to give me when times seemed less. The time is less but I remember spending a single day wandering in Saigon before. I just walked all day long. Left the next day for something else. I feel like this blog is going to take a little sleep after this. When I want to write here, it will be here but the big thing for me is the going. So leaving on the van service for Phnom Penh and then the almost spiritual ride and connection gets done again with Vietnam. Just for days. But like I did the one day before, a few days is longer than enough to charge some batteries that have suffered.

That’s about it. What else to say. I will go for coffee out today to see my daughter. She wants to know about me going and has been the main instigator and influencer of me deciding I would go on my own. I also need time away I think from the current things. I get down on them in the journal. When it lasts longer than a day it’s time to go.

so anyways...

I’ll see you when I have something to say. I never feel like a schedule here. I just go at it when I feel this need or desire to toss words into the void.