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Taste This! Does this Taste Funny?
January 20, 2016Okay, this is a thing that happens: You sit down to a nice meal, either at home or abroad,…
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Myanmar: Travel Tips, Tales & More…
November 21, 2014Myanmar is one of the most enticing, mystifying, beguiling, and sometimes foreboding locations you will ever see. Golden pagodas,…
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Ngpali, Myamar: Bay of Bengal
November 14, 2014But once we made the short ride to the hotel, our mood shifted – because there it was, the…
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Inle Lake: A Floating World
November 7, 2014Enchanting. Ethereal. Exquisitely fragile. This is Inle Lake. It is a world of floating markets, floating monasteries, floating towns,…
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Another Taste of Bagan
October 31, 2014I admit that we had high hopes for Burmese food before we actually got there. Myanmar is bordered by…
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Myanmar: Beguiling Bagan
October 25, 2014No matter how you got here, the best Road from Mandalay is by riverboat.
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Wayside Water Stations in Myanmar
October 17, 2014Buddhists in Burma form what are called “water-donating societies” (wainay ya thukha) and set clay water pots along roads…
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Myanmar: On the Way to Mandalay
October 11, 2014Say the name: Mandalay! Just the sound of it evokes visions of the exotic East, the opulent, ancient Burmese…
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Myanmar: Burma Bound
October 4, 2014We’re on our way to Myanmar! Nearly 13 hours into our almost 26-hour flight, and we’re a bit cranky…
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Myanmar: Is It Safe?
September 25, 2014I assume that, as adults, you avoid travel where there are civil wars, epidemics, human rights violations, or other…