Benjamin - June 2010

It's been an interesting couple of weeks. First, dad wanted to take me to a "hidden beach." It is about an hour and a half ride on motorcycle up a cow path, a literal cow path, until you come to a small dirt road. The road was muddy, so dad asked me to get off and walk while he tried to ride through the mud. He makes it about 10 yards and the motorcycle sinks into two feet of mud. He starts pushing, but the motorcycle will not budge. After several minutes, some Khmer guys come buy and dad talks them into helping push us out of the mud (it cost $5 to get the help).

It was starting to get dark, but dad still wanted to see the "hidden beach," so we went around the mud by getting on another cow path. It took us over two hours to get to the beach from the time we left the house. When we get there, it was not much of a beach, there were goats, pigs and cows running around everywhere and it was almost dark, so we could only stay five minutes to swim. At least we know the way now. The brochure was not exactly honest in what it said and what it showed about the beach. It was not the paradise shown in the pictures, but it was an adventure to get to.

We start headin' back, guess what we see, a huge paved road on our right. The brochure took us through the cow field, but there was a road that ran right out to the beach that we could have taken. Usually up for the "road less traveled", we decided it would be a good time to take the quick way home and we decided on the paved road. We were hungry from our adventure, so we stopped at a restaurant on the way home and had a good meal. We had a great time and I enjoyed the "dad time." Never ones to miss an adventure, it started raining on our way home, so we had a 45 minute ride home in the dark soaking wet.

Another "Burke Boy Adventure" in the books!