A Farewell to Myanmar

on Dec 11, 2014

I’m writing this from a bus. We have just flown into Bangkok from Mandalay, and are traveling down to Phuket. I am wrapped in luxury the likes of which I haven’t seen in weeks. It’s a new Scania-made bus. Leather seats, subdued lighting, faux flowers, curtains, split-levels and a tiled bathroom replete with a wall-to-wall mirror. As if that’s...