Winter 2015-2016 Chiang Mai, Thailand
Monday, December 28, 2015 First Full Day – Revisiting Familiar Favorites – Part 2 This is the second part of my first full day in Bangkok, visiting familiar favorites and new places.This will be a long post — my first full day in Bangkok was a long day, and a good day. Walking to Wat Mahathat Part of the goal for this visit to Thailand is to break in the hiking shoes I am planning […]
Monday, December 28, 2015 First Full Day – Revisiting Familiar Favorites – Part 1 This will be a long post — my first full day in Bangkok was a long one, and there is a lot to share. Before the day really started, I learned that I am not yet adjusted to the 15-hour time difference (no surprise), when I awoke at 3:30 AM and was fully awake. Am I going to end up sleepwalking […]
Sunday, December 27, 2015 Settling In, Getting Dinner I am in Bangkok. It seemed to take a long time to get here, and while I have often arrived in the middle of the night, there is familiarity to everything I am doing. The big question is will I get adjusted to the local time, and how difficult will it be? I got to my room in the InterContinental Hotel, and the room is familiar, looking […]
The general goal of the journey to Thailand is to do yoga and meditation, work half-time, and walk around visiting temples and other places I have come to love. I walk around a lot while in Thailand, so I’ll use that walking to break in the hiking shoes I am planning to use on the Camino de Santiago in April. I do not have very much of an agenda for my short stay in Bangkok, […]
My first visit to Chiang Mai, Thailand was in 2003 as a side trip while in Thailand for the Bangkok International Film Festival. I visited in 2006, again as a side trip from the film festival in Bangkok. In 2010, I injured my right arm, causing a dramatic reduction of my yoga practice as well as completely stopping cycling, something I had been doing for many years. In mid-2011, my arm seemed better, and signed […]
Introduction and Background Greetings! I am Jim Geier. This blog is about my fourth successive winter in Bangkok & Chiang Mai, Thailand in late December 2015 and January 2016. The intent is to share my journey, a little of what I did each day with a few pictures of what I saw or places visited. If you are interested in seeing my blog for the previous two visits to Thailand, the links are: 2014-2015: https://jamesgeiercamino.wordpress.com/category/2015-thailand/ […]
James the Intrepid Pilgrim 