A Day of Recovery (and Silliness)
November 23, 2016
Charles Dickens would have loved out trip to Myanmar. It was “the best of times and the worst of times”. Traveling there was a true experience. We sa...
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Saying Goodbye to a Loved Camper
November 22, 2016
I write today with a very heavy heart. When you are a camp director, you put yourself in a position to really care about people. Most of the tim...
Comparing Japan and Myanmar
November 22, 2016
I should start by saying how incredibly frustrated I was in Myanmar that I could not post all the pictures from that strange and visually stunning pl...
Redeeming Yangon: the Shwedagon Pagoda
November 21, 2016
I mentioned yesterday that Yangon has one redeeming site: the Shwedogon Pagoda. It is both audacious and intimate. We saw tourists, but also devout b...
Depressed by the Yangon Zoo
November 19, 2016
We are told to never judge a book by its cover. Personally, I have always liked the onion analogy better. The outer skin might be a little rotten...
The Drive that Should have Never Happened
November 19, 2016
Some experiences are, shall we say, trying ones. Many of them are travel related. Yesterday was one of those. One of the true measures of a co...