Research topics were discussed and a schedule for travel to the provinces was put forth. Since my research area was prison administration and the treatment of prisoners, I was assigned to Phnom Penh so I could meet with relevant Ministry of Justice, Interior and UN officials. That's when I committed my first cultural faux pas. I had a long skirt on and hiked it up to straddle the seat. I was later very embarrassed to learn that only women of ill-repute straddle the seats when riding a motorcycle.
Women usually ride side saddle.
One of my first projects was going with a LAC lawyer to meet with a client who was assaulted by local police along the Cambodian-Vietnamese border. We went to investigate with officials from the UN in a 4WD vehicle along with a Vietnamese-Khmer interpreter. The road was very bad and we had to take a boat part of the way. Locating the house boat where the client lived was no easy task. There was no address per se.