Posts Tagged ‘travel’

Touched down in LA, made my way back to the monastery only to have to turn around and head back to save a visiting nun from deportation. All is well, time to rest. Tomorrow is the first day of my planned stayputting in Los Angeles. Wish me luck.

At the Suvannabhumi airport in Bangkok, waiting to board the first of my flights back to the West. This flight may mark the end of my residence in Suvannabhumi in general, as I begin to settle in my new North Hollywood environment. Thailand has been a great place, in retrospect, but I’m looking [...]

In Chom Tong. So much has changed here in ten years… who would have thought I’d be hacking into the monastery’s wireless Internet router in an air-conditioned five-story building where there used to be only a rice field behind our huts over which we would watch the sunrise in between meditation rounds? [...]

Just a note that I’ll be in Thailand from March 2nd to 10th. Almost twenty-two hours in transit, eight days to attend a board meeting, visit students in Bangkok, fly to Chiang Mai to see my teacher, and recover from jet lag just in time to fly back. From Chiang Mai to LA [...]

Just back from the Mohave Desert, having learned a few new things about deserts in general, or at least this desert in specific. First, it rained for the first five days we were there, shattering any myths I might have held about deserts being dry places… the nearby lake did nothing to reaffirm this [...]

Went to Chinatown looking for pocket watches today, picked up two nice gold-plated Bulova watches, should make nice monk presents.
Also picked up four tenants for the night… tomorrow to free them in a lake somewhere. They came in these little tacky plastic boxes and were frantically trying to escape to something a little more [...]

Just thought I’d write a little about the progress we’ve made in linking up some of the various available technologies out there to help spread Buddhism to the world. The virtual reality platform has really become a useful tool; at first I thought it was a silly thing, but it’s actually helped to connect [...]

So, let’s see… the Internet went down this weekend, that’s why I’ve been out of touch… oh, and the fact that I spent last night in a jail cell on charges of indecent exposure… but I suppose that’s just par for the course at this point.
I went to the beach yesterday; actually, I never set [...]

Here’s the rest of my silly story.  I promise to be less silly in future posts.
Day Three
The third day started like any other at Khun Bpang – cold, painful, swollen, warm-ish, in that order.  Only this time, my monkish friend and I had hot food together for our first real meal.  The sensual pleasure of [...]