Slow boats running the Mekong come in three variaties: cheap, uncomfortable and over-crowded; midrange with lots of room to mix; … Continue reading The Mighty Mekong

Chiang Rai, older but always in the shadow of Chiang Mai. Still, we enjoyed our short stay in this quieter … Continue reading Poor bro

Chiang-Mai 1974.  With very young sister Wendy on our return from living in Kuala Lumpar this was a pretty raw … Continue reading Forty-Two Years Later

​I feel very lucky to have experienced a snipit of Myanmar. As an undeveloped country it does however present some … Continue reading  Yangon and Last Thoughts on Myanmar

An hour and a half drive out of Taungoo (N/E of Yangon) elephants are still used to log forests – … Continue reading Working Elephants of Taungoo

A very late, slow bus took us from Bagan to Nyaungshwe at the north end of the well known Inle … Continue reading Stilt Villages of Inle Lake

Three days in this amazing archeological area of 50 square kilometers…SW of Mandalay, where between 50,000 to 200,000 people once … Continue reading Bagan-historical gem

Rickety old double decker boat transported us from Mandalay to Bagan along with a couple dozen other tourists. Starting before … Continue reading Putting down the Ayeyarwady River

We were exploring the aviary in Kandawgyi Botanical Garden…a beautiful garden in Pyin Oo Lwin (unfortunately now owned by the … Continue reading Attacked by a Grandma 

We would have come through Hsipaw if we had been able to travel overland from Yunnan province, China, on way … Continue reading Trekking in Hsipaw, Myanmar