by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
A natural extension of a man who has seen much and done much, of a life that escapes the box. He is currently writing his biography and has published several excerpts on his website. Collected here are various essays and poems.
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
Arakan State PDF Print E-mail The rust bucket which passed as a ship blew its shrill whistle, and the last scurrying sarong clad passengers hurried across the gang plank as we cast off from Sittwe in Arakan state before 6 am. Arakan state borders Bangladesh to the...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
Kachin state: In search of the amber earrings, and the story of one soldier who never went home. Kachin state was an area of Burma that had just recently opened up due to the cease fire signed in 1993 between the Kachin independence army, or K.I.A, and the Burmese...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
I had first seen the “Golden Rock Of Kyaik-to” in a painting at the Inya lake hotel and was told that no tourist could go there. The golden boulder was perched atop a solid granite outcrop, jutting out from the side of a mountain in Burma’s Mon...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | Excerpts
I woke up at 4:30 am to catch the flight on Myanmar air from Rangoon, capitol of Burma, to Sittwe in Arakan state which borders Bangladesh. Only 45 minutes later we arrived at the small airport with the crumbling blue sign proclaiming “Sittwe airport.” Locals pay the...
