I like the description in one of the guidebooks: if you come from another SE Asian capital you’ll think you’ve … Continue reading Vientiene…Hick Town or Metropolis?

Update: Check out this link about Vang Vieng. I didn’t realize how bad the situation there has been! http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/1196941/life-after-death-in-vang-vieng Vang Vieng…Rice … Continue reading Vang Vieng -Adventure Capital 

This place was ear-marked as a pause place. A place to just hang for awhile.  Ten days later despite Chinese … Continue reading Sad to Leave Luang Prabang

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