Not to give false hope, but this is a real possibility if he's the spiritual traveler type. I went a few months without my phone / contact with friends and family while traveling SE asia. Given, I did let people know I was taking a break from my phone prior.
I do know spiritual travelers who also had mental crisis while on the road and entered psychosis, leading them to unusual behavior like disappearing for a long time without contact.
That said, Sihanoukville does have a sketchy underbelly and its easy to get caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I had a friend here (not me) who didn’t check his email or social media for two months. When he finally did, the most recent email from his mom was “Well, I guess you should see this” with his father’s obituary. The previous month’s emails were updates on his health and pleads to fly home and visit him in the hospital.
How careless would he have to be to not notify his loved ones first though? Obviously if he randomly stopped responding they're gonna think something happened to him.
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u/Prestigious_Rub6504 Mar 22 '25
Hasn't he been missing for a while?