Category Thailand
planning ahead to Myanmar
I applied for my Myanmar visa in Bangkok. This is a fairly straightforward procedure, and visa-seekers can pick up and fill in the requisite two-sided form while standing in line. Easy, right? Not when your pen runs out of ink less than halfway through the form. I’ve been carrying three ballpoint pens with me since […]
Elephant Ahead! Mae Hong Son motorbike loop
Ja, another motorbike loop, although likely the last one for this trip. I keep doing these because, at this point in working my way through Southeast Asia, I’m losing interest in visiting sights, be they natural wonders, museums, historical structures. I’m sure the caves and waterfalls of Thailand are worthy, but after seeing so many […]
me and my dream in northern Thailand, looking down from above
And by Dream, I mean an eggplant purple, kickstart only, unknown vintage Honda that had a gas gauge that only sorta worked and a key that, I was warned, could be removed from the ignition while running. It was on lanyard that I kept looped around the side mirror to prevent it from being lost. […]
onwards! a disjointed post about moving on from Laos to Thailand
Just as I’m starting to get the hang of one country here, my visa is up, and it’s time to move onto the next. I arrived in Thailand a few days ago, via an overnight bus from Luang Prabang. It was a 17 hour ride to Chiang Rai, which surprisingly, wasn’t all that bad. Each […]
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