Tag Archives: burma

Over The Burma Border

November 14, 2023 – 7:17 pm

2002 Fifteen miles into Burma Hot Dry Dusty An illegal entry On a 250cc ATX Honda. Stop at a A Lao village On a nameless dirt road Surrounded by eternal opium fields. Children gawking at the falang An old white man in black Two men with AK47s. Watch From a bar. Thinking DEA. Two beers […]

By Peter | Posted in motorbikes, motorcycles, Poetry, Thailand | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Across From Burma

September 21, 2017 – 7:32 pm

Throughout the 90s I biked up from Chiang Mai to Mai Sai on the Thai-Burma border. A small river separated the two countries. The people on both sides looked the same and the houses were built in a similar fashion. I stayed at the Mai Sai Guest House to the left of the Friendship Bridge. […]

By Peter | Posted in 90s, Thailand, Travel | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)