Hello, again, Blogonauts. Forgive this polite fiction that I encourage you to live with ... that I am writing this blog on a daily basis and you are following closely in my footsteps. Myanmar's sticky web of web insufficiency left both you and me trapped and starving for bandwidth. There was so much to tell you about, but the internet was stoppered, and semaphore doesn't work around the arc of the globe. I intend to be caught up by the time I reach home, but ...

Hello, again, Blogonauts! This blog is a few days behind schedule, so I'll cut the verbiage a bit short and allow the pictures to add a thousand words each to the narrative. On Friday, January 31, Co-Co our Mandalay taxidermist ... no, Autocorrect, that would imply we're stuffed instead of merely drowsy ... our Mandalay taxi driver gathered us from the hotel before dawn to deliver us speedily to Mandalay's docks on the Irriwaddy River. The Irriwaddy is the seas...