Inspiring you on your own journey . . .
Your stomach is filled to bursting as you get on the Nankai line train at Namba station. You ooze takoyaki and okonomiyaki through your pores. Osaka is a city of feasting excess. Everywhere you look there is food. Having ruined yourself on the food, you need to gain some spiritual fodder. The immaculately spotless train […]
The horse sleepily drags your cart along the dusty road out through the temple studded plain. You have been heading north from the ancient town of Old Bagan for some time now toward the small town of Nyaung U. The crimson splatters of betel juice from local chewers marks the places on the road where […]
The jungle road shakes your body and jangles your nerves while you putter along in your hired tuk-tuk. Foliage flies past your eyes as you zip by ancient trees that swallowed a once powerful city. The amok you ate for lunch churns around in your belly every time you hit a divot in the well […]
When all is said and done, there are really only two kinds of temple in my mind; a functional, employed temple and a ruined or derelict one. While the usable buildings hold a huge draw for me, aesthetically there is something compelling about a ruin. To me it is a thing of mystery. Somewhere imagination […]
