Tag: Armchair travel

From Yangon, with sanity

From Yangon, with sanity

Obviously no one briefed the censors that I was coming. This site is one of the only things out there that isn’t blocked.  Thank you for your trust, Junta. Appreciated.     We arrived yesterday morning after a long (and yet not long at all) 

Compare and Contrast

Compare and Contrast

I’ve been stupidly busy this week, between finishing up my year’s marking (done!), trying to find brand new, unmarked, unfolded American dollars for our trip to Myanmar on Friday (the junta is fussy about money and they don’t have ATM machines or take credit cards 

Despo(t) 2010: Stan!

Despo(t) 2010: Stan!

Also in this series: Death By Exposure and Despo(t) 2010: The Axis of Awesome     In our quest to avoid the crowded pavilions at Shanghai Expo 2010, we embarked on an intensive one-day project to visit as many maligned countries as possible.  We visited 

Shanghai Despo(t) 2010- The Axis of Awesome Pavilions

Shanghai Despo(t) 2010- The Axis of Awesome Pavilions

Also in this series: Death By Exposure and Stan!     We went back to Expo on Saturday for a stubborn second round of heat stroke and agoraphobia. The first time we went, which was just last Tuesday on the second day of the Dragon 

Death by Exposure: Expo 2010, Part 1

Death by Exposure: Expo 2010, Part 1

  Also in this series: Despot 2010: Axis of Awesome and Stan!   After we spent the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival being slothful, alternating dragging our bodies out for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, and lying dugong-like on the sofa, reading and