During our recent family trip to visit my in-laws in Pursat, we took a side-trip to buy a bicycle for Srey-Yuu & Monkey-B.
Big City Shopping 🏙️
Pursat is a very agricultural and mountainous area, so even the provincial capital is light years behind Siem Reap, Battambang, Sihanoukville, & Phnom Penh, basically the only 4 big-ish cities in Cambodia. It took us about 15 minutes of driving around random roads to stumble upon a cluster of two bike shops.
We chose the bike shop on the right because it was closest to where we parked the tuk-tuk. Srey-Yuu has been bugging me for ages to get a bicycle again, so I was glad to finally have this opportunity. A wealthy Cambodian family member in California sent us $100 to spend on the 
Choices, Choices 💭
Srey-Yuu was seemingly stunned at the thought of having a bike again. I reminded her Pramaoy has a few hills, so if we're lucky we might find an internally-geared 3-speed bike like we had in Suriname. Srey-Yuu and Monkey-B were both able to get bikes, and we put them both in the tuk-tuk with several bunches of coconuts gifted to us by family members, then hit the road back to Pramaoy.
🥣 Eat, Ride, Repeat 🚴♀️
Since arriving back in Pramaoy Srey-Yuu has begun riding her bike to Khmer public school in the mornings, and Monkey-B is trying to learn the delicate art of balance, something absolutely necessary in the absence of training wheels.
Even though we no longer have a cafe, we still eat just as good as when we did. Whether chopping coconuts or making a "puri pizzas," the
A local dessert seller that hawks from her bicycle recently saw our mass of coconuts, and asked to have the meat from a few for her business. Due to the higher than average prices of coconuts here, we were glad to give them to her for free, and it's always nice to be friendly when you are the new folks in town.
Go!! 🐵 Monkey Go!!
Much to Monkey's chagrin, I have asked her to forget the pedals for now and focus on moving the bike with her legs, then lifting and experimenting with balance. She can go for a few seconds now, and I sense within a week she'll be scooting around like this much more gracefully.
🦟 Mosquitoes 5 - 0 Monkey-B 🐒
Learning to ride a bike requires a lot of brainpower, apparently so much that you can't even tell when 5 mosquitoes are drinking your face. I only went inside for a few minutes and the above face is what I came back to, Monkey-B oblivious to the battle she lost with Pramaoy's mosquitoes.
Just Hivin' & Bikin' 👩💻
The door to our rental room can barely be seen behind the tuk-tuk, but it's a pretty panorama of a typical scene from our life here. We often use our neighbor's hammock hut, and the extra wide sidewalk has kind of become Monkey-B's bicycle path. On the right you can Srey-Yuu helping Mom with her Hive blog.
The above shot is Monkey-B getting for a push and balance attempt. She's getting so close now, and I can't wait to see her ride and eventually ride by alongside big sister to public school. Well, taht's all for now folks, so far a bad attempt at posting 7 days a week like I'd wish.
Even though Hive is my full-time job, I rarely find to post and earn from my own profile after doing various daily chores, ASEAN Hive stuff, and helping Srey-Yuu and Pov with their blogs. I really hope to find some more time in the near future to post and engage more because I honestly miss creating posts and reading ASEAN Hive content from you all.
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