Every day can be the trip of a lifetime.
When I stumbled upon the Research Meditation Center inside Was Arun, a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2018, I had no idea how much it would impact my life. As a student and instructor of meditation for the past 2 decades I was intrigued by the story of Hartanto Gunawan, the meditation teacher at … Continue reading Proof of Making a Difference
We got tired of Hanoi pretty quickly. It was one of the roughest places we’ve ever traveled to. Thousands of motorbikes constantly pour through the streets, making it almost impossible to cross the road. The sidewalks are mostly full, but not with pedestrians. Shop owners and others have dragged their rustic stoves and pots and … Continue reading Monye Tea
Laurie & I continue to head West along the North coast of Bali on the motorbike. Traveling light, most everything we need for the road trip is packed underneath the seat on the motorbike, a Honda PCX 160cc. We also have a tiny daypack which Laurie wears, and a small nylon bag hanging from a … Continue reading Bali Road Trip & 3 Right Turns
After a 2 1/2 year hiatus from traveling internationally we are finally back on the road, and our first stop is Bali, Indonesia. When Laurie and I sat down to decide where we would travel to a few months back, we made a short list of places we love - Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Thailand. We … Continue reading Back to Bali & Road Trip #1
So here I am in Bali, more specifically, Ubud, a new-age Yoga and spirituality hub which has really gained in popularity in the last 15 years or so. We're in the middle of a 3 month experiment "snow-birding", being away from the cold, snowy New England Winters. It's going pretty well so far. We booked … Continue reading Bali
UPDATED: Link to donate - click here. I don't normally make resolutions for the new year. I usually just make adjustments and changes to my lifestyle on an ongoing basis. Knowing what needs to be done and doing it. But something significant happened on Monday. I opened my mouth and some words came out. I … Continue reading Why I need YOUR help with MY New Year’s Resolution
There’s a lot of interesting stuff that happens in our day to day life in India. I find most of it quite extraordinary because it’s so much different from our daily lives back home. I’ll even go as far as to say it’s like being on another planet. It’s that different. Piecing together some of … Continue reading Another Chance Encounter
I usually don’t have enough material for a blog post until I’ve been on the road for a few days or so. But I could have written this one even before I left the bus station in Concord. Here’s why. I spent a lot of time getting ready for this trip, getting the house prepared, … Continue reading Up, up and away!
It's been a little over a week since we've left Asia and I miss it already. Each country we visited had its own little quirks. We unexpectedly fell in love with some of the places we visited. The most pleasant surprise of the trip, so far, has been Malaysia. I don't want to take anything … Continue reading Asia in the rear view mirror
Mother Superior walked into our 3rd grade class at St. Laurence O'Toole School and handed a letter to our teacher, Sister Marie Charles (not her real name). They talked briefly and then began to address the class. It was 1966 and I was 7 or 8 years old. The letter was from a young Lieutenant, … Continue reading Vietnam
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