North to Inle Lake

North to Inle Lake

The past beats inside me like a second heart. John Banville, The Sea My goal on this trip to Myanmar was to visit the ancient kingdom of Mrauk U.  I was well and truly satisfied with everything I had seen and was now free to continue my trip down memory lane.  I took...
Inspiration for travel

Inspiration for travel

All we have to decide is what to do with the time given to us. Gandalf For Bruce Chatwin, inspiration for travel to Patagonia was the bit of flotsam that showed up in his grandmother’s china cabinet, a piece of a brontosaurus rescued from a glacier by a restless...
What is old?

What is old?

We are always the same age inside. Gertrude Stein This was written on the last day of my 2014 -15 trip (March 26, 2015) in the paradise called Ubud in Bali where I had been watching the rice grow in the newly planted fields. I am off to Bangkok tomorrow and then to...