Off to Myanmar....

I'm off. 

After submitting an application on Tuesday in Vientiane (Laos) I was granted a visa to visit the Union of Myanmar on thursday. 

I returned to Phnom Penh on friday morning on a quick and painless Vietnam Airlines flight, sitting next to a Laotian/Khmer-American couple from Seattle.  I spent the afternoon at the office tying up loose ends. 

I'll fly out of Phnom Penh this morning, stop in Bangkok (what does one do in the Bangkok Airport for 6 hours?), and arrive in Yangon (formerly Rangoon) in the early evening.