Random Past Posts
Naga New Year on the Chindwin River, Burma This is where my Burma experience really started to get interesting. The core of the trip was 11 days spent on the remote Chindwin River, traveling village-to-village on a temporarily converted rice barge. This is NOT a tourist destination (and More...
Continental Drifters (Istanbul Part 3) If you’re like me, you’ve always been a little hazy about where Europe ends and Asia begins. In Southern Europe, at least, there’s a very definitive answer: downtown Istanbul. The Bosphorus Strait -- a waterway that bisects Istanbul and More...
Good Karma: Gujarat, India India's westernmost state is home to 60 million people and a handful of endangered Asiatic Wild Ass. Gujarat is the birthplace of both Mahatma Gandhi and current Indian Prime Minister Modi. One morning I was at a massive flower More...
Guatemala: Sleeping in the Jungle? Technically, I did sleep in the jungle. Admittedly, I was in a couple of pretty nice 'bungalow' hotels. The Tikal Inn (above) was a fun, convenient place to stay and to start other excursions – it’s literally inside Tikal National More...
