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I have talked about travel in Myanmar in the past. I will certainly be going there again when I can. Just to keep you up to date, here is a link to a recent article on a website sponsored by what I think is a group in opposition to the government. Please read Derek Tonkin’s [...]
The crisis in Haiti has everyone’s attention, including mine. I will not comment about it because I know next to nothing about that area. Some have been drawing parallels between it and the Myanmar crisis of two years ago. In Haiti aid is bottled up because the infrastructure is largely destroyed. In Myanmar there was [...]
Just as we are getting ready for a southern Thailand trip, Derek Tonkin sent this about vacation travel in Myanmar. I think the tide is turning on tourism to Myanmar. In the recent past you might have been viewed anywhere from politically incorrect to a supporter of a brutal military government if you decided to [...]
Mr. Dinger did sent a picture of the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar. As I said before (08 Nov 09) the Embassy is quite impressive, and indicates that although the U.S. has a lot of differences with the government there, it is certainly taking Myanmar seriously. As I remember, there was more in the compound on [...]
I took over 1200 pictures this last time and so am showing only very few here. Sue, Hector and I had a cloud/sunset photo contest on the way back from the river village. The sky was spectacular with Monumental cloud formations. The camera just cannot show what it is like to be there.
I do have [...]
In the previous post I talked about meeting ambassadors, captains of industry, etc. Where else would someone like me, who the local property tax collector will barely give the time of day to in my own country, meet people like that? Myanmar is the only place I can think of.
There really is very little going [...]
How often do I ever meet any ambassador from any country? Well, until a few weeks ago it was never. A few days into our trip we all went over to the new U.S. embassy in Yangon and met with Mr. Larry Dinger, who is the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires for Myanmar. Because of various policy [...]
What we do with many of the books we bring in is give them to the Buddhist monks. I’m not sure whether we make any merit in the Buddhist sense, but many temples in Myanmar have libraries that house our books and are used by their communities. The monks also distribute the books to these [...]
(Usually all the pictures here are mine, but videos and a few pictures taken by board member Hector Rivas were too good to leave out in this and a few following posts. Click on active words in the text to view the videos.)
We took a two day trip in a van to the city of [...]
Two weeks ago Sue and I got back from seven days in Myanmar, our fourth trip, and I finally have some time to write about it. The theme of this blog is coming to Thailand and the things that happen here, but one great thing to do when coming here is to take a side [...]
