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Mad Kings and Mellow Nuns: Mingun and Amarapura

June 13, 2013

24-27 February 2013. There’s an enormous mound of bricks in the small dusty town of Mingun about an hour’s boat …

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In 2011 Alison Armstrong and Don Read wanted to retire and travel the world. Finances were preventing them from living their dream. That May Don had a premonition that selling their condo would allow them to blow past their financial roadblock. A series of unplanned events allowed the couple to realize their wishes. By September, they had sold their condo and most of their possessions and began travelling. They had no plan of when, or if, they would finish traveling or where they would end up settling down. For six years they travelled the world and wrote about it in their blog. In 2017 . . . the couple felt it was time to stay in one place for a while. They landed back in Vancouver. Travelling is still part of their lives, but Vancouver was now their home base."

In 2011 Alison Armstrong and Don Read of Vancouver, Canada wanted to retire and travel the world. Finances were preventing them from living their dream. That May Don had a premonition that selling their condo would allow them to blow past their financial roadblock. A series of unplanned events allowed the couple to realize their wishes. By September, they had sold their condo and most of their possessions and began travelling. They had no plan of when, or if, they would finish traveling or where they would end up settling down. For six years they travelled the world and wrote about it in their blog. In 2017 . . . the couple felt it was time to stay in one place for a while. They landed back in Vancouver. Travelling is still part of their lives, but Vancouver was now their home base."

In 2011 Alison Armstrong and Don Read of Vancouver, Canada wanted to retire and travel the world. Finances were preventing them from living their dream. That May Don had a premonition that selling the couple’s condo would allow them to blow past their financial roadblock. A series of unplanned events allowed the couple to realize their wishes. By September, they had sold their condo and most of their possessions and began travelling. They had no plan of when, or if, they would finish traveling or where they would end up settling down. For six years they travelled the world and wrote about it in their blog. In 2017 . . . the couple felt it was time to stay in one place for a while. They landed back in Vancouver. Travelling is still part of their lives, but Vancouver was now their home base."

In 2018 I went to China. It was an epic journey lasting four weeks and covering nearly five thousand kilometres from Beijing to Hong Kong. For three of those weeks I was with @intrepidtravel on their China Experience tour. My latest blog post is a photo essay - a collection of photos that I’ve been saving and at last I’ve gotten around to sharing. They are images of the Chinese people at work and at play, deeply involved in what they are doing, or just hanging out in the street, crowding the main tourist sites of their country, or singing in the parks. People living their lives. I hope I’ve managed to capture something of both the universal nature of humanity, and of the unique way that the Chinese do it. New blog post: A Portrait of China - a photo essay. Link in bio.

In 2018 I went to China. It was an epic journey lasting four weeks and covering nearly five thousand kilometres from Beijing to Hong Kong. For three of those weeks I was with @intrepidtravel on their China Experience tour. My latest blog post is a photo essay - a collection of photos that I’ve been saving and at last I’ve gotten around to sharing. They are images of the Chinese people at work and at play, deeply involved in what they are doing, or just hanging out in the street, crowding the main tourist sites of their country, or singing in the parks. People living their lives. I hope I’ve managed to capture something of both the universal nature of humanity, and of the unique way that the Chinese do it. New blog post: A Portrait of China - a photo essay. Link in bio.

In 2018 I went to China. It was an epic journey lasting four weeks and covering nearly five thousand kilometres from Beijing to Hong Kong. For three of those weeks I was with @intrepidtravel on their China Experience tour. My latest blog post is a photo essay - a collection of photos that I’ve been saving and at last I’ve gotten around to sharing. They are images of the Chinese people at work and at play, deeply involved in what they are doing, or just hanging out in the street, crowding the main tourist sites of their country, or singing in the parks. People living their lives. I hope I’ve managed to capture something of both the universal nature of humanity, and of the unique way that the Chinese do it. New blog post: A Portrait of China - a photo essay. Link in bio.

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