little bit dusty and dirty....

but other wise pretty healthy. Mingalabar everyone! Will and I are back from Myanmar/Burma. I was unable to check my email and the blogspot due to government restiction. Right now I am just going to do a qick update and then come back a little later and update you on all of Burma. We were there for 22 days and it went by so fast. Every last part of it was amazing and beautiful and we will try to put up at least one new photo of us. Will contracted giardia the last three days we were there. Thankfully, my associate acupuncturist from Germany was traveling with a huge bottle of grapefruit seed extract and we jumped right on it. I forgot to pack this myself, it was on my list and I ran out of time due to too many distractions before I left. Anyway, he is better and had his first meal last night after two days. We have come to understand that we are compatible travel mates and somewhat the yin and yang of one another.....he is shitting too much, me not so much. We stayed at the monastery the last ten days and each had our own cabin. It is wonderful at the monastery but they have outhouse style squatter toilets that have lots of mosquitos fluing about. I have grown to despise the sound of the mosquito. Perhaps Will and I will dedicate one single blog to restrooms conditions in Myanmar. Pretty interesting to say the least.

I am feeling a little depressed today after what seems like such a whirlwind tour of Burma. The time with my friends/students is never quite enough and the goodbye is always tearful. We never really know when we will see each other again. I suppose this is a lesson with any situation in life, that you never know what will come tomorrow and should make the most of today. We certainly made the most of the trip. We are now trying to decide what is the next best destination. We have just over a month left and we would like to try and make it to Cambodia Laos and Vietnam. It will almost be impossible and we may need to drop Laos or Vietnam...so hard to choose, not quite as serious as Sophie's choice obviously, but still, to not choose either is heartbreaking.

Ok, I think this is all the time I have for now. Need to go to another internet cafe that will let me get to my .mac account and pay some bills!

Talk to you all soon enough!

willandcody