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Mad Rain

December 18, 2023 – 2:23 pm

In 2017 I was driving to Umphang a remote mountain town on the Thai Burma Border. Monsoons shrouded the peaks and created a a river torrent blocking the road. An intrepid pick up driver attempted a crossing and was swept away a hundred yards. We rescued him and then the truck was submerged by the […]

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The Road To Umphang – Thailand’s Death Highway

November 13, 2020 – 6:03 am

Umphang in Tak Province has long been Thailand’s most remote province. Well in the 20th Century the only access to the region was by pack horse, ox-cart or on foot. In the late 60s the Thai government financed construction of road through the perilous mountains only to have rebels kill thirty construction workers. The other […]

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Highway 1040 Again

July 14, 2012 – 8:01 pm

Yesterday morning I sat at a small coffee stand in Umphang. I was the only farang in sight. My daughter and her mother were shopping at the Karen tribal shop next door. A light rain dotted the street. This was the end of highway 1040, the Highway in the Clouds. There was little reason to […]

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