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all who wander are not lost... but some of us are... ;-) hope this finds all healthy and happy... i have been aimlessly wandering around northern thailand since my last post trying to figure out what i want to be doing and where i want to be going... thankfully i have not put too much energy into it and have more or less just let things happen as they will... since i came north in the first place to sit the vipassana course and it was cancelled, i really had no thoughts of what to do... so here is what i wish to share since my last post... went to the train station about two hours before my train dejparted for chiang mai... found a quiet corner out of the way to sit for 45min... mossies ... read more

it must be or it would be otherwise... i spent a couple of days in bangkok (which is actually a western basterdization of the name of a village that used to exist there called bang makok... the official name of the city is, are you ready for it, 'krungthep mahanakhon amonratanakosin mahintara ayuthaya mahadilok popnopparat ratchathani burirom udomratchaniwet mahasathan amonpiman avatansathit sakkathattiya witsanukamprasit' , which translated roughly means, 'great city of angels, repository of divine gems, great land unconquerable, grande and prominent realm, royal and delightful capital city full of nine noble gems, highest royalty dwelling and grande palace, divine shelter and living place of reincarnated spirits'..) planing my vipassana meditaion schedule while here in se asia... first course scheduled to begin on the 13th of may so i went and bought a train tic... read more

salutations sibling beings... this is my seventh day on kho pha-ngan and i am content, at ease... i mentioned a brother from calgary coming here, brother paul... he spent three nights on the island and we just hung-out the whole time... very comforting to have a little piece of canada here... if nothing else, not to have to focus so intently all the time on language just to understand the most basic things, so much energy... i thouroughly enjoyed our time, our long, verbose discussions on life, the universe, and everything... i felt we actually had quite a bit in common which made for many laughs, like an old friend you've known for years... so i met paul at his minibus drop-off around sunset... the next day we decided to rent scooters... about $6cdn/24hrs, quite the ... read more

greetings from thailand... i departed calgary on friday night with a connection through vancouver... so the plane is taking off in calgary and as soon as it leaves the runway, the cockpit door flies open and i can see out the front window of the plane from my seat... after a few seconds the flight attendant pulls a little curtain closed, way to go air canada... in vancouver they thought they saw a pocket knife in my carry-on so they emptied it and rescanned it to no avail... then i am stopped by a customs agent who wants to chat about how much money i have, almost missed my plane, but did not... then after a 12hr flight i arrive in taipei and for some reason am not allowed to leave the airport, therefore no smoking ... read more