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Mandalay and Away We Go

Currently Listening to: Random hostel music

On Monday morning I woke up before Tom in hopes of getting to FaceTime with my family. My dad’s birthday was two days later and I knew they were having a small family get together to celebrate. In typical Burmese fashion, the wifi was the literal worst and all I got to do was see faces and wave. As this was happening at 4:20am, our taxi showed up 40 minutes early. I had gone to the lobby to FaceTime home, as I had figured the wifi would be strongest there. Continue reading “Mandalay and Away We Go”

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It’s Always Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt, Then It’s Hilarious

Currently Listening to: “Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine Show

Guess what everyone… When you don’t take a VIP bus, things get interesting really fast. Tom and I left  Inle Lake on a night bus. Despite asking several travel agents about a VIP bus to Bagan, we were out of luck and had to take an ordinary class bus. We found out the seats reclined and that it wouldn’t be much different  than the VIP bus we took to get to Inle Lake. Well, they were wrong. The seats were small with enough leg room for me, but Tom was a bit cramped. We got going at about 7:30 and listened to Buddhist prayers for the beginning of the journey. They then turned on a Burmese variety show. Continue reading “It’s Always Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt, Then It’s Hilarious”

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Burma, A Land Like No Other

Currently Listening to: “For Once In My Life” by Stevie Wonder

I landed in Yangon an hour late, but found Tom as soon as my passport was stamped.  (Tom and I met in the Ho Chi Minh City while on a Mekong Delta trip. We were hanging out with a funny Parisienne who had visited Myanmar and convinced us to go. She also recommended going with someone you know as it isn’t a well traveled country and hostels are far few between. Tom and I were both traveling alone, we got along, and it just seemed like the right thing to do). Continue reading “Burma, A Land Like No Other”