| Back to travels & other stories home page While continuing to find new pieces for our future home, the design of it needed to keep evolving. With each new find another napkin or envelope was required to scratch out these ideas of how it would all [...]
| Back to travels & other stories home page | Next page: Chapter 5 The inspiration It's now 2009 and another year has past and the doors we had built last year are still not finish so back we go to India. Twenty two doors are a [...]
| Back to travels & other stories home page | Next page: Chapter 4 India Part 2 India, Incredible India! That's what the the ads claim and it's true. Our first trip in India, day two the scene: dawn breaking on a local bus heading to Pondicherry, [...]
| Back to travels & other stories home page | Next page: Chapter 3 India With 10 acres of work ahead of us, how to begin? Sometime in the past 60 years the trees on this property grew and were neglected ending up now looking like a forest [...]
| Back to travels & other stories home page | Next page: Chapter 2 Burning down the house For years now friends and family have said that I must put down in writing the story of our home, 'StoneHouse', so that it's not lost to time and memory. [...]
O.K. jump right in, were back. Chaos starts right on leaving the airport, we love it. iPad out, does the rick-shaw driver understand the map I'm showing? Never fear we arrive and begin the hunt once again. Dark, hot dusty warehouses. Exploring wonderful galleries with a cold drink, meeting old friends and new. Always the [...]
Nyuang Shwe is the largest village on Inle lake in the Shan state of Myanmar. For many years we have been coming to to this remarkable place, enduring many a long dusty bus ride in the 'old' days. Today much has changed but the culture and spirit of the people remain mostly untouched. Our very good friends, our [...]
Myanmar, an amazing country. For many years we avoided the trains hearing that they were slowest of all means travel. Thus we were apprehensive of the thought of spending 22 hours or more on overnight journey to reach Myitkyina (pronounced Micheena) in the far north of the Kachin State and our destination, the Amber fields. [...]
