

The Irrawaddy Explorer has several different types of suites on board and three of them are named for colonial authors who wrote about their time spent in Burma – Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, and George Orwell. However, when the opportunity came up to travel with two of my favorite Travel Vloggers on a chartered river boat cruise in Myanmar, I only got so far as choosing a room on the boat before my reading list was set.

No, shut up Alexa, I did not ask you anything!), and news stories often alluding to 1984, the last author I thought I would be reading this year was George Orwell. With the world seemingly headed towards an Orwellian Big Brother type era with all the new technology that can be used to spy on people (I’m looking at you Alexa.
