Reflections and Impressions on Another Winter in Chiang Mai I have been home for four weeks now, and reflecting on my recent month in Chiang Mai, the first thoughts are that (1) it was different than I had expected, and (2) unexpected things occurred that changed the experience; not making it better or worse, just presenting different experiences. I did not have firm expections; my hope was that I would do yoga, visit temples including […]
Sunday, 25 January 2015 The Journey Home I am reminded again of one of my favorite quotations, a sentiment often made, and very well-said by the following, the last line in the book Up Country by Nelson DeMille: The journey home is never a direct route; it is, in fact, always circuitous, and somewhere along the way, we discover that the journey is more significant than the destination, and that the people we meet along the […]
Friday 24 January 2015 Last Day Walk Last night in the lobby of the 3-Sis Guest House, I met a brother and sister from Washington State (my home state), and I saw them again today at breakfast. They are just starting a short leisure visit to Chiang Mai after couple weeks of business elsewhere in SE Asia. I told them of my plans to visit a few of my favorite temples being that this was […]
Friday, 23 January 2015 Last Full Day (?) This is my last full day in Chiang Mai. All right, that is not quite true, because tomorrow the plane does not leave until 11:55 PM, so on one hand that is a full day, but I’ll only have a room until noon, and will leave 3-Sis for the airport at 8:30 PM. It is close to a full day, and today, Friday, is my last full […]
Thursday, 22 January 2015 A Silk Factory and A Textile Exhibition My Thai friend Jo picked me up at 3-Sis at 9:30 and we were off to the Samkampaeng area east of the old city to the Jolie Femme Thai Silk Factory. The making of silk has a long history in Thailand. My understanding is that the making of silk in northern Thailand had dissipated in the twentieth century. After the war in the late […]
James the Intrepid Pilgrim 