Timeline

10.27.15

Weather: 93° and sunny 1:25pm Flight to Bangkok on our way to Yangon 4:20pm Flight from Bangkok to Yangon 7pm Checked into our guest house cleverly named 15th Street after… the street it’s on 8pm Walked down Maha Bandula, mainly trying to get ourselves a Myanmar…

October 27, 2015
Letter

And I Scream From the Top of My Lungs

What’s going on! Well, if you guessed more eating, you’d be correct. Food is so easy to come by here, what with it being every where at every time and for so dang cheap (meals have run us anywhere from $1-$5 USD). Although we…

October 27, 2015
How To

I Don’t Care if You’re Full

Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it. One of the best souvenirs you can bring back from a trip is to learn how to cook the tasty food you enjoyed while traveling. We did just that at Sammy’s Organic Thai Cooking School (on a recommendation…

October 27, 2015
Timeline

10.26.15

Weather: 90° and partly cloudy 8am Full day at Elephant Nature Park! 7:30pm Liquor store for drinks + food with our new friends from our day with the elephants 10pm Continued our night out with our elephant friends at Beer Republic…

October 26, 2015
Letter

Here Comes the Sun

And I say it’s alright. I had dreams about getting to the see the elephants even before we left on our trip. I had such a fascination with these majestic creatures that don’t look like anything else on this earth. What I didn’t know, couldn’t…

October 26, 2015
Timeline

10.25.15

Weather: 88° and partly cloudy 12pm Shopping at MAYA shopping center 2:30pm Last lunch with Yot/Tessa at Anchan Noodle. Jordan joined, too. 10pm Decided to bring food from Guu Fusion Roti & Tea back to our apartment and eat at home…

October 25, 2015
Timeline

10.24.15

Weather: 91° and partly cloudy with scattered showers 3:30pm Met Yot at HimmDoi Coffee before heading out to the river cafe 4:30pm Blood noodles (yum!) at hole-in-the-wall spot with Yot and Jordan 5:30pm Our first, real scooter ride out to Bannok Cafe, a cafe that’s…

October 24, 2015
Timeline

10.23.15

Weather: 91° and sunny 2pm Had our first glimpse of Burmese food at Burmese Restaurant & Library (not impressed, sadly) 3pm Stopped by a cool, little shop called Memo Nimman and bought some mangosteen sorbet 3:30pm On a Burma kick, went to Nine One Coffee…

October 23, 2015
Letter

Don’t Stop Me Now

I’m having such a good time, I’m having a ball. We are ten wonderful days into Chiang Mai and really have been enjoying ourselves (insert condescending Willy Wonka meme here). In addition to the food and lovely apartment, we’ve been finding the pace of life here…

October 23, 2015
Timeline

10.22.15

Weather: 93° and partly cloudy 9am-5pm Learned how to cook some Thai food at Sammy’s Thai Cooking School…

October 22, 2015