Seeking

Phuket Island in the south of Thailand has become a very popular beach destination. It is as beautiful as always, but the number of tourists is a bit much for us, so we’re only overnighting on the way in, and…

Penang is an island off the coast of Malaysia, adjoining the Malacca Strait. Beginning in the late 1700s, it was a major trans-shipping port under British colonial rule. After WWII, it became part of the Malaysian union. It recently has…

I’m now traveling around Thailand by car. As my internet connections are often slow in rural Thailand, and I’m busy all day, I’m mostly putting up pictures with a few terse labels. I’m not going to try to make this…

Judy and I came to love Thailand, and returned many times. During one stay in Bangkok, I began studying Chen Tai Chi with a club in Bangkok. Tai Chi is very good exercise, and also has a meditative component. Now…

My next trip is a short excursion to Myanmar (Burma), to the northeast of Thailand. About the size of France, it has about 52 million people, mostly Buddhists. I will begin in Yangon (formerly Rangoon), and then spend Christmas week…