Burmese Lessons (A Travel Book Review)
Each year, Lonely Planet chooses the world’s 10 “Best In Travel” destinations. And though we might not be able to visit Myanmar in person, we can explore the country through Karen Connelly’s haunting memoir.
Category Archives: Southeast Asia
Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful
In appearance, feet are inelegant and dowdy. Clompy. But here on the stone pathways of some Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, they humbly ask for recognition. Graceful is their ability to dance, to walk, to wander…
Travel Theme: Camaraderie
This sense of extreme isolation turned individuals into family tribes. From one to five to twelve friends, assorted nationalities and various tattoos, we found ourselves playing games on the beach. Snorkeling, singing karaoke together. . .
Burmese Ghosts: Photographic Reflections On A Haunting Country
Only Burma sends its ghosts after me, reminding me that even with an eternity to travel, I will never fully appreciate the place it is, nor understand the country it could be.
10 Books To Honor Veterans Day And The Burma Campaign
Somewhere beyond the fence of trees, their branches growing in links of green and brown, lies a graveyard. We can see no marble headstones, no dried flowers or markers of […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
Kathleen – German in both accent and addiction to ‘making photos’ – pointed her camera toward the fleeing mandarin light. My companions waited for that mystical green flash that signaled the end of the day…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Window
The tuk tuk bumps down isolated country roads, where children pop up, like fresh produce, from small farms. A chorus of “Hello! Hello!” matches the slap of their bare feet racing after us…
