Continuing to explore Thailand, we headed west from Bangkok to the Kanchanaburi area, home to several big national parks. We went to visit a major tourist attraction, famous because of the book and movie of that name. We learned that…
Phuket Island and area, January 2019
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, Malaysia January 2019
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…
Thailand by car, January 2019
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…
Maldives November 2018
Nearly 20 years ago, Judy and I visited the Maldives, an ellipse of atolls south of India. We came to see it as one of the top 10 snorkeling destinations we had visited anywhere. Maldives trip report This year I…