On The Road Again: "All the people that come and go stop and say ...

It's difficult to describe accurately, but imagine some war-torn, 19th-century European city that has since been abandoned. That sounds negative, I know, but I mean it in the most complimentary way possible. Rangoon/Yangon is like a forgotten gem. ... He dealt with the arrangements to get bus tickets, and (more importantly) he secured the permit required to leave the country overland into Thailand, which would have taken much longer if we had done it ourselves. ...