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Good or Bad Trauma? What Happened Towards the End of a Fuzzy-Feeling Massage

July 31, 2023September 25, 2023 Michael Green

A current drifting mantra of mine is Wellness. In eastern Asia I get to take advantage of incredibly affordable saunas or more accurately herbal steam. Sauna, herbal steam, I’ll happily take whichever I can get. It’s called a sauna when in essence it’s

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The view from above the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phu in Champasak, southern Laos.
Budget Culture Nature Spirituality Transport

Khmer Hindu Time Travel at the Ruins of Vat Phu

April 11, 2023July 14, 2023 Michael Green

The ruins and grounds of Vat Phu, in Champasak, Laos, are a uniquely aesthetic and ancient Khmer Hindu site. Like many vintage earth spaces, strolling around and absorbing the open-air energy and its ancestral remnants, typically provides for great pondering. If you’ve been

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View of the wide Mekong River in Pakse, southern Laos
Budget Language Spirituality

Peaceful Pakse on the Calm Mekong

March 16, 2023July 13, 2023 Michael Green

I’ve been in peaceful Pakse on the calm Mekong for three weeks, with nine days before the 30-day Lao visa expires. The original, but loose plan was to stay in Pakse for the full, in-country time allotment. However, during the first few days,

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Wat Toong Shetthi on the outskirts of Khon Kaen, Thailand
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Khon Kaen: A City of Unknown Wonders

February 15, 2023July 13, 2023 Michael Green

I found to my pleasant surprise that Khon Kaen in Isaan, Thailand is a city of unknown world wonders. The above Thung Sethi has been compared to the Taj Majal. It’s certainly not that, as this architectural astonishment on the outskirts of the

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Buddhist-style architecture at Vat Sensoukharam in Luang Prabang, Laos.
Budget Culture Spirituality

Infinite Earth Art: Temples of Luang Prabang

January 1, 2023July 13, 2023 Michael Green

Temple gazing has never been high on my travel to-do list. Like so many people traveling in SE Asia, I have taken the stance of: Another temple. How many temples can I see? However, as humans, we have the open-minded ability to easily

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The White Temple or Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Rai, Thailand
Budget Spirituality

Temple Drifting and Coffee Sipping in Chiang Rai

December 12, 2022July 12, 2023 Michael Green

The smallish city of Chiang Rai, not to be confused with its bigger cousin of Chiang Mai, (187 km south), is a good city for temple drifting and coffee sipping. During a week or so in this laid-back town, I was able to

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Mayan Time Travel at the Ruins of Zaculeu

September 17, 2022July 10, 2023 Michael Green

Unplanned until the evening before, I found myself wandering the grounds of the smaller than average, ancient Mayan site of Zaculeu, in Huehuetenango. Because Guatemala’s second biggest city of Quetzaltenango hosts a huge celebration for the country’s Independence Day, I was forced out

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Flora in Andean, Vilcabamba, Ecuador
Nature Spirituality

A San Pedro Cactus Consumption Experience

June 4, 2022June 30, 2023 Michael Green

There were so many episodes. It was as if time stood still. It’s a bit reckless and crazy to do on your own, –without a shaman– or any companions. But, back in the day, a man from a town would go out into

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Optimism - Optimistic Sign: Today is a Good Day to Smile (in Spanish) on the path on short, inclined path to Casa Loma, in Minca, Magdalena, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Colombia
Spirituality

Optimism: A Wellness Word

May 27, 2022September 18, 2023 Michael Green

When the wellness word optimism comes up in an English class, I like to make time to teach it. It’s a positively potent piece of vocabulary for a person’s arsenal. It can generate solid discussion and aid in promoting well being, while helping

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