Final Preparations for another winter in Chiang Mai Very soon, I will leave my home close to San Diego, California, bound for my 13th yoga-focused winter in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I will be in the Kingdom for 90 days this winter (close to 13 weeks), my longest stay in Thailand to date. As in previous winters, I’ll be staying at The 3-Sis, practicing yoga at Wild Rose Yoga several times per week, strength training at […]
Summer at Home 15 July 2025 It is summer, and I’m at home in the city (actually, the suburbs) of San Diego, California. This post is about what I’m doing in the summer in the city. Sunset over the Ocean Recently, at the actual start of summer, I saw a beautiful sunset over the Pacific Ocean on my way home from dinner with friends. Summer in the City The song Summer in the City from […]
Thursday 6 February 2025 Traveling Home and Reflections on My Twelfth Winter in Chiang Mai Traveling Home to the United States Being my last day in Chiang Mai for this winter, I spent a low-key, mellow day on Thursday. First I went to The 3-Sis for my last breakfast because I love the Thai omelet, which is not on the menu at See You Soon. Also, I wanted to bid farewell to the staff at […]
Monday 03 February 2025Afternoon excursion near Mae Rim, Air Diamond Cafe When we were driving north to the Dantewada Waterfall Park, we passed an actual airplane just off the main highway. Mukda said it was a coffee shop but she had never stopped there. On the way back from Dantewada, I suggested that stopping there might be fun. Air Diamond, part of the Black Canyon Coffee chain, is a coffee shop in an actual Airbus […]
Monday 03 February 2025Afternoon excursion near Mae Rim, the waterfall park We left the lake at Huay Teung Thao and headed north, farther from the city of Chiang Mai. We are going to a place with a waterfall or more than one (more photo opportunities), and it is in the district north of Mae Rim called Mae Taeng. The place is the Datewada Waterfall Park, and it was a lot of fun being there and […]
Monday 03 February 2025Afternoon excursion near Mae Rim, lunch on a lake My friend Mukda had told me that on Monday she had to go north of Chiang Mai to pay her business tax and she asked me to come with her. She said there was a nice place where we could have lunch near the provincial tax office. I met at her massage shop and her two massage ladies, Yui and Anna joined us. […]
Saturday 1 February 2025 Returning to Khun Chang Khian to see the Sakura Mukda is a long-time friend of mine who owns a massage shop on Loi Kroh Road here in Chiang Mai. I often sit and chat with her after an evening walk, watching the people walk by. She told me that one of her massage ladies, Yui, wanted to go up the mountain to Khun Chang Khian to see the Sakura. She came […]
Friday 31 January 2025 Some miscellaneous pictures and descriptions I am all caught up with this blog, enjoying some mellow days in Chiang Mai as my winter here is eroding away. It is the last day of January and I start the journey home in just six days, next Thursday evening. A couple of posts ago, at the end, I noted that the next post would be miscellaneous photos. So to round out January, here […]
Wednesday 29 January 2025 Temples I see often and seldom visit On Ratchamanka Road is Wat Pha Khao, a temple I pass often and have seldom felt compelled to enter and explore. Here is the sign on the corner with very sexy-looking angels in the carving. Inside, there is a coffee shop by the entrance, and further in, a viharn and chedi. There are always several people and monks here, so this is a fairly […]
Wednesday 29 January 2025 Temples I see often and seldom visit Writing my blog was easier when I was walking the pilgrimage routes in Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Every day while walking to the next town, I took many photographs. At the end of the day, while resting and waiting for laundry to finish, I would select a representative few, process them (crop and resize), upload them to my blog host site, and then […]
Sunday 26 January 2025 Hiking to Wat Umong via Wat Suan Dok After crossing the hectic canal road, like a divided highway, I found a route to Wat Umong through the smaller and less busy sois instead of the main roads. I arrived at Wat Umong from Wat Suan Dok in a respectable 45 minutes. Wat Umong Wat Umong is located south of Chiang Mai University in deep woodland near the base of Doi Suthep […]
Sunday 26 January 2025 Hike to Wat Umong via Wat Suan Dok I typically hike with my friend Rudy from France on Sundays when he is in Chiang Mai, but he was not available today. I considered returning to the Monks Trail and hiking all the way up to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, but I just was not psyched for that difficult of a hike today. Instead, I decided to return to Wat Umong, […]
