Preparations

Because of the way we travel... mainly without organised bookings of transport and accommodation, I usually spend a lot of time, myself, to prepare,  figuring out where and how we can take trains, or buses, or boats or planes in the countries we want to visit as well as investigating places to stay en route.

As far as getting around South East Asia, travel  has been revolutionized by:

These guys have allowed millions of people to travel across the region for  a reasonable price making what we do feasible. Without them and the other discount airlines, the trip we are about to make would either be prohibitively expensive for the four of us or would consume so much time as to be impractical

Making progress

Have spent sometime trying to get the structure of this blog right. Beginning to understand how things work but still have a few issues to work out.
Received today from Amazon my Lonely Planet book for Burma. don't usually use these kind of books but going to Myanmar this year, thought it might make sense.

Let's get going...

This is about a trip we are planning to make this summer which will see us travel first to Bangkok then on to Burma back to Thailand and over to Laos and then down to Cambodia