Street 592

- - Where we work, and where we lay our head at night- -

Here, streets are given numbers instead of names. If you have a particular street number you are looking for, let's say there is a restaurant you want to find there, good luck! Only the few major streets in the city have actual names, and the numbered streets do not go in order on the maps!! Tuk-tuk drivers get soooo lost trying to find things, because nothing is in order. For example, Street 578 might be parallel to Street 3. Insane. Anyhow, we live and work on Street 592. Our new house is about a 5 minute bike ride on a nice, paved, fairly drained, street. We love it. Below are a few pictures of our new home:

The main, and largest room of our house: we have made it into a dining room, office, and guest area. The door you see is our front door.

The dining room and bookshelves; behind the shelves is our guest bed (w/o mattress yet...).

Karie's favorite spot: our veranda. Below is Street 592.

We see these beautiful sunsets from our veranda. Amazing.

This was one of our most rainy, flooding days. Look how deep the water was on our street!!

This ox cart comes by every morning, selling terra cotta pots and cooking containers. The oxen are badly malnourished.

I felt like a tourist, taking pictures of this normal event...however, the Cambodians think the oxen are pretty cool too!! They all came out to the street to watch them.

We have been here 3 1/2 months already, and we still have so much to see and do! There are days when we feel bored and trapped here, but even looking down onto our street can provide entertainment. In the recent weeks, we have spent nights out on the veranda watching spectacular lightning storms, colorful sunsets, flooding streets, ox carts, speeding motos, and much more. Hooray for Street 592....wherever you are on a map.