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Tracing the old Burma Road
The disused Irish railway that runs from Claremorris, Co. Mayo via Kiltimagh and Charlestown to Colloney, Co. Sligo is known as the ‘Burma Road.’ This last saw trains in the mid-1970s, yet much of the track and right-of-way remains intact. A railbike operation is based at the old station in Kiltimagh. After St. Patrick’s Day, Kris and followed a portion of the Burma Road on our drive toward…
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“NEW THREAT TO BURMA ROAD,” Vancouver Province. May 18, 1942. Page 8. ---- This map, detailing the distances between each point on the much-battered Burma Road, shows a second route which may be taken by the Nipponese to outflank the Chinese armies now successfully defending the highway near Lungling. This route follows the railway from Indo-China to Kunming, and is through difficult mountain country.
Meanwhile Chinese guerrilla bands between Lashio and Lungling are impeding the Japanese advance. Along the Indian border, the British have dug in on new lines after a slow retirement, which afforded precious weeks for completing the defense of northeast India.
Greg Adams, of Tower of Power fame (in addition to his amazing session musician discography and all the awesome other things he’s done) lays down the track Burma Road off my 2nd favorite solo album of his (beaten only by Firefly) Hidden Agenda; Enjoy!
Cormorants fishing at Erhai Lake
Cormorants fishing at Erhai Lake
In the backlit skies above Erhai Lake, a century’s old ballet of sky and water takes place each morning. 洱海 Erhai Lake, Dali, Yunnan The lake, located at the end of the Burma Road in Dali, which is situated in the Yunnan Province of southern China, is dotted daily with the bamboo rafts and the small craft of fisherman like Yang Ze En, who makes his living on the waters. As En and men like him…
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To the ass in flat 50....
Don't even try to make food when you're drunk and just got home from bop! There are people here sleeping, and that stupid fire alarm can wake the dead...
*skulls*
U.S. serviceman riding mules, leading pack mules with full packs along Burma Road, 1945.
“Taken on the Burma Road. 1945. Mules to China."
Gift of Hiram Vance Boone, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum.
