Ah, Chiang Mai
The streets and the shops are filled with things glittery, sparkly, and shiny.
Bagan: panoramas and temples
Marco Polo was impressed and eight hundred years later I can see why.
The largest book in the world.
Come with me to Mandalay to check out a book with pages of marble.
Golden Palace Monastery, Mandalay
A creative solution to a haunting
Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon.
The Shwedagon rose superb, glistening with gold, like a sudden hope in the dark night of the soul. Somerset Maugham
Tak Bat in Luang Prabang
Getting up early brings unexpected rewards
In which we find a Wat, a Stupa, and a mozzie finds me
A bike ride to Wat Samakyxay and the Stupa, That Luang Namtha, and an encounter with a trapped mosquito
The Open Road Beckons
“The open road speaks for a perpetual becoming.” Pico Iyer I’m continuing my tradition of reading well-known books years after they came to the attention of the rest of the world! But the gap is narrowing. Pico Iyer’s The Open Road was published six years ago, where […]
Jill's Scene 
The korero