Don't eat cold chicken or fish

That's our new mantra. It sounds, perhaps, self-evident. It's probably not a bad thing to keep in mind wherever you may be, but we can empirically confirm now, that it is indeed a bad idea in Bamako, Mali, and now somewhere between Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

After making it through 3 healthy weeks in India, I figured we were due for some sort of reckoning at some point, but somehow didn't think it would come in SE Asia, but it has. Erica and I have become incredibly familiar with our cable selection in our little guesthouse room, as we've been spending some solid quality time inside for the past few days. We are blaming it on a the lunch we had mid-trip between Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. I had a lukewarm Chicken curry and Erica had a not so warm fish soup. It is oddly similar to our undoing in West Africa as well, where she had lukewarm grilled fish, and I lukewarm grilled chicken. We have self-medicated now, however, and are sincerely on the mend, which is a wonderful thing. We'll see if we can make some better lunch decisions moving forward.

Tomorrow is the Cambodian independence day, which should be relatively exciting here in the capital, and then we are planning on going to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.