Burmese Daze
12-30-2007
Burmese Days
This bare inaccessible under the shade of melancholy boughs. As you like it.
-George Orwell, Burmese Days
Myanmar has no friends
....but everyone loves Burma.
December 31st, 2007
Split FD 3770
Bangkok, Thailand– Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
It’s 7:13 AM. and we’re preparing to taxi towards the runway, headed for that vicious sweet land of enchantment.
Because of the Myanmar (formerly Burma) government’s oppressive black out on email, it’ll be at least 14 days or so before I’ll be skilful to post a blog of which I anticipate this to be a real whopper by the time I get back to Bangkok to wrap up this amazing Asian venture and get on back to my sweet little family and all of my friends.
I was so excited the day that I got my Myanmar visa that I immediately went to the Siam bank here in Bangkok and started the exhausting process of transferring travelers cheques to Thai Baht (a big expensive & unavoidable rip-off) then to US green backs which is the only manners of outside currency that Myanmar will accept (and they better be crispy and new too…and the $100’s serial number better not start with a CB either or they will not agree to bear it) other than their own which is called Kyat (pronounced “chat”.)
It’s been an hour and 15
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