I just met an American guy called Grady at our guest house who has been in here in Yangon for 6 days. He’s been poking around, trying to find a way to help. Unfortunately, there are very few options. White people are simply not allowed to have anything to do with anything.
But there is some [...]
Posts Tagged ‘typhoon’
Something we all can do for the people of Burma (erm, Myanmar?)
Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged election, Johnny Walker Black, Myanmar, politics, self-organized, typhoon on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back in Yangon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Myanmar, Nargis, typhoon, Yangon on May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, we made it back to Yangon in one piece, despite another brutal bus trip. The road from Bagan to Yangon is one of the main thoroughfares in Myanmar, yet it’s barely wide enough for two busses or trucks to pass going in opposite directions (they both have to slow down and at least one [...]
Should I stay…?
Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged Bagan, Mandalay, Myanmar, typhoon, Yangon on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Big Question that’s been percolating in our minds over the past day, as we hear more news from y’all, the internet, and by asking questions of locals here: Should we get the hell outta Dodge? My first inclination was (of course) to stay – to finish most of my trip, and then to try [...]
Safe & hot w/aching butt in Mandalay
Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged cyclone, Inle Lake, Mandalay, Myanmar, trekking, typhoon, Yangon on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here we are in Mandalay after a long (9-hour), bumpy bus ride on painfully hard seats. For the people here, it’s as if there was no cyclone/typhoon. It’s hot and sunny and there’s electricity and (painfully slow yet working) internet.
As I mentioned in my brief post yesterday, we really had no idea how big the [...]
I’m fine
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Inle Lake, Mandalay, Myanmar, typhoon on May 7, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I’m sorry to have you all worried. The internet was spotty anyway, and with the typhoon everything got knocked out. I was trekking in the hills at the time. Now we’re in Inle Lake, heading to Mandalay this evening. Up north here there was only rain. So we’re safe and completely fine. We didn’t even [...]
