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...
Mardis Gras 2012 It's Fat Tuesday, and you'll be relieved to know that I have been successfully evacuated from New Orleans. Mardis Gras festivities center around parades – usually 3 or 4 parades each day – each of which is put on by More...
First Look at Burma (Myanmar): Yangon The start and finish of my three weeks in Burma were in Yangon. I’m still sorting pictures from the rest of the trip, which included everything from remote tribal villages to famous golden Buddhas to a stunning hot-air balloon ride More...
Scotland 2014: Lighthouses, Sheep, and Dead Economists Yes, I've been home from Scotland for a while, but I've got a few more batches of pictures to share. For 190 years, the Eilan Glas lighthouse has sat on the small peninsula off the Isle of Scalpay (a More...
Paris 2012: Endless Louvre It started as a 12th Century fort, and became the royal residence and seat of the French monarchy until Louis XIV moved his throne and his wig collection out to Versailles in the 1680s. Since then, the Louvre has More...