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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...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... →Cuba 2013, Part 3: A Return to Havana This is the last of my posts from a May 2013 trip to Cuba. The first was here. The ten posts (with tons more pictures) from my 2012 trip started here, and ended here. Most of what you see below More... →Blythe and Tyler Life never turns out the way you imagined it, and sometimes that's a very good thing. My nephew, Tyler, grew up in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, and after college he found his way to Chicago to try his hand More... →Mt. Cook, New Zealand 2013 was my Year of Mountains! I hiked and/or biked them on four continents in Patagonia, Europe, Colorado, and here. Next year? Beach!! Pennies aren't lucky in New Zealand. In fact, so ill-fated is the New Zealand one cent piece that it's More... →