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So I start my trudge, pack aback…Inanitah: A day in the spiritual community of Ometepe
Laying atop a bed of volcanic gravel, I stargaze through the roof screen of my tent. The jungle is alive. Howler monkeys wail and bark in the distance. Creatures scamper through the leaves surrounding my campsite. Insect voices fuse together in a cacophonous primordial buzz, enveloping most other sounds. It’s hard to sleep; grayscale moonlight [...]
Read more →Fan death and the mean monkey hammock
Meet Amy. Hilarious, compassionate, beautiful blue-eyed, inappropriate and strong Amy. We met in Korea, in case you didn’t remember. We re-met in Cambodia, Nepal, and India… our paths purposely crossing to co-create a world of adventure and trouble. Amy is the yin to my yang. We trade ham for radishes at meals,and trade stories about [...]
Read more →Cabuya
I should have known. I should have known. I should have known when she laughed maniacally at the pregnant lady sitting in front of her on the bus. I should have known when she wouldn’t give Amy her own luggage ticket. I should have known by the way she smoked her cigarettes, darting eyes, shaking [...]
Read more →San Jose
The walls of my hostel are painted black with splashes of glow-in-the-dark paint. Although I have hardly arrived, I am here. I slept close to 14 hours last night, after blindly spinning circles around the Parque Nacional. I awoke to the grumbling of voices in my hostel dorm room. Most were just settling down to [...]
Read more →Departure
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama… http://www.inanitah.com/ Flying south in the morning… see you in June!
Read more →Vehicular Emancipation
For the last eight months I’ve been enjoying the fruits of home. Clean underwear, tap water, comfy bed, friends and family in hugging distance, a sexy vehicle in which to transport my lazy self to work and play. Though I sometimes think and talk about past and future travels; I’ve found myself comfy and settled [...]
Read more →The essence of India (thus far)
Cyclos, car horns, smells like piss and potatoes, pollution, people constantly staring, mom’s nauseous again, bindis, turbans, saris, silk, hindu gods, shiva shambo!, taj mahal made from love, stop go stop go stop go go go, ‘are you married?’, vegetable samosas, dhal, channa masala, sweat, stank, chafing, pollution throat, insensce, tv, curry, kindness, naked hungry [...]
Read more →“Chi-wit deee” The good life
In the golden light of the early morning I awake to the sound of lapping waves. Not a minute later I quickly stop the beeping of my alarm clock and peer through the screen door of my tent. Koh Phangan is silhouetted in the light, and for a second I think it may actually be [...]
Read more →Ang Thong National Marine Park
Crystalline waters, silken white sands, hardly anybody around, coconuts, yoga, meditation, monkeys, and me. This is where I’m holing up the next month to study and practice being happy and joyous. I can’t imagine it will be that much of a struggle. Coming soon: (6/28) Bye Thai, Hello India!
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