It’s about 16 hours until our plane takes off for Seoul, South Korea. It’s a 15 hour flight. We have a 2 hour lay over and then board a 5 and a half hour flight to Phnom Penh. Hopefully someone will be there to pick us up. I’m kidding, well sort of.

From there we have a bus ride to Battdambang. Depending on the weather it could take 3 hours, it could take 7 hours. It depends on the conditions of the roads and if there is a road at all.

I’m almost packed. All the batteries in the cameras are charged. All the cables are packed. Got a stack of books to read. However I’ll probably watch more movies on the plane than I’ll read.

I’ve reviewed some Khmer phrases. It’s a challenging language and hopefully the native speakers will teach me a few things.

This will be the longest journey I’ve ever taken, 20 hours on a plane, literally halfway around the world. I’m so excited the time is here.

Our leader said there are a few Internet cafes. If all goes well there will be daily updates. You can follow the trip on: http://cambodiamaytrip.blogspot.com/ and

http://twitter.com/jamsmooth.

If you’re my friend on Facebook you can follow there as well. I’m going to install the Twitter app so everything is synced.

Thanks to all who contributed with money and prayers. You’re on this trip with us. Without you this wouldn’t be possible. I’m thrilled to be given such an extraordinary opportunity to serve.