April 15, 2006
Sangkren Water Festival
Day before yesterday was New Years in Lao. Yesterday was New Years in Thailand, although the celebration continues for several days in these countries. We get it again! Leila took...Read this update
January 03, 2006
New Years Eve
Bob left for Thailand on the 29th. Josh had to work at the restaurant so Amy and I spent New Years Eve drinking wine and champagne...good conversation with my daughter-in-law...and...Read this update
July 12, 2005
Stories Of The Street
Ten baht (25 cents) for a motorcycle taxi gets me to the American educated dentist down the soi and around the corner in little more than a minute...scared to death...Read this update
October 23, 2004
Coffee Taxis & New Friends
I take a taxi to the upscale Lufthansa shopping centerin Beijing to see if a bookstore had the Lonely Planet "Shanghai." They didn't of course...there were a few Lonely...Read this update
December 16, 2002
Koor Yi...Ok Ok
Monday December 16 OK, OK, OK, (koor yi in Chinese) the woman taxi driver giggles as we pull out of Old Town Lijiang on the way to the bus...Read this update
September 05, 2002
He Ho To Rangoon
Flight to Rangoon From He Ho Question: How do you know the Westerners standing behind you in the airport check-in line are not American? Answer: Their backpacks are pink,...Read this update
August 28, 2002
Schwenguan
We took a taxi back over the mountain from Tounggye to Schwenguan where we were to catch a train for the three hour ride through beautiful terraced rice fields...Read this update
Taunggyi...Last Frontier
At dinner one night in Inle, Bob was considering taking the offer of the waiter to lead him on a trek into the mountains until he told us that...Read this update
August 26, 2002
He Ho & Inle Lake
August 26 2002 It is possible to take a ferry up the Irrawady to Mandalay but we chose not to do this because we heard the ferry was government-run...Read this update
August 18, 2002
Poverty, Government Greed and Human Sweetness
August 18, 2002 Rangoon (renamed Yangon) We took Thai Air to Rangoon. Bob left his Lonely Planet Guidebook Burma (renamed Myanmar by the military junta) on the plane and...Read this update
April 28, 2002
Driving & Cueing in Egypt
Drivers have immense patience with each other-each car gives way to the others like a million fish in a school swimming this way and that...narrowly missing one another but gracefully...Read this update
April 21, 2002
Cairo
On April 21, 2002 while waiting for our flight from Athens to Cairo, we visited briefly with a gentleman sitting next to us who was on his way to...Read this update