The lodge and future site of Camp 152 & Community Center is coming along, and now the rough floorplan has been finalized and wall building has begun.

👷‍♀️ Forewoman @Sreypov Approves 👌

Even though I have some construction experience in my background, particularly stamped and stained concrete floors and walls, I simply don't have the time to help nor can I afford to stop working. These pictures are actually from 3-4 months ago, right before the rainy season began and construction had to be halted. Fast forward to present day and construction has resumed, but I wasn't able to work and save money during the downtime due to my wife's health issues, being the active parent, and doing a lot house-husbanding like cooking, cleaning, etc.

My recent posts that during the last 3-4 months I was also unable to post and therefore my Hive photography no longer corresponds with the present day. I do want to bring you back into the present day in chronological order, but I can't remember the details of a particular day so long ago. I guess what you see is what you get in this case, but I can tell you that what you see in the above photo are three future toilet stalls.

🚽 Toilets & Showers 🚿

We want to eventually have lots of space for accommodation, but until there is a place to eat, wash up, take a 💩, etc., there isn't gonna be many guests coming. As we're nearly broke already and there's little money to left to build any accommodation, just finishing the lodge enough to live inside of it will allow us to live in it and free up our small house for conversion to a dorm room for mountain climbing groups. The lodge will have three shower stalls, three toilet stalls, a cafe and a hangout area, so it'll likely be a lot of tent camping here until we save enough money to do more building.

I hope the sacrifice is worth it and we are successful, there is certainly a captivating view of the mountains for lodge guests to enjoy. The mountain side of the lodge will have as many massive windows as possible to take advantage of this natural view we've been gifted. I often daydream about getting back into cooking and working with guests, getting away from online work more and more is the goal. I'd love for Hive to be something that I do for pleasure like it was back in the day, and not the unpredictable sole income it has become since the pandemic's impact on my family.

Time will tell, there is no doubt my wife and love it here, especially the ability to live in Cambodia and not have to deal with the extreme heat like 99.9% of Cambodians who don't live on top of a mountain pass. The rainy season is nearly 7 months long here because we are so high and also only a few kilometers from the Gulf of Thailand, so we absolutely need a spacious place that is well protected from violent storms. The end goal is the ability to accommodate around 30 overnight short-stay guests or 8-10 longterm renters. We would much rather fill this place with folks staying for several months or longer because we wouldn't have to be constantly available for unannounced visitors.