True Nomads
Blog URL http://www.truenomads.blogspot.com
Tags Tibet, Travel, India, Buddhism, Ganges, Indonesia, Guge, Ki Gompa, Ladakh
True Nomads explores the world through travel, philosophy, and shared experience. We travel to remote corners looking for distant answers to the questions of life.
Latest Blog Posts
- Echoes of the Anasazi on Nov 4, 2009 in Pictographs Hopi Anasazi Ruins Puebloan Four Corners Adobe Southwest Grand Canyon Cedar Mesa Pottery
Imagine a house made of stone, nestled high against sheer sandstone walls, beautiful stonework framing T-shaped openings with smooth lintels, and all hand plastered in red/brown adobe. There are fingerprints pressed into the adobe around the opening...
- There and Back Again - Rim to Rim Grand Canyon on Oct 4, 2009 in Duality Colorado River South Kaibab Mind Grand Canyon compasion Body North Kaibab Rim-to Rim
I was standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon – grand is a good modifier here, but if you haven’t stood at the edge, it may not carry the requisite effect. This is a canyon of red and yellow rock, over one mile deep, with a blue green river at...
- The Paradox of Experience on Aug 19, 2009 in Tibet Kerala I Java Hemis Gompa Monsoon Borneo Nubra valley Experience onsen time travel
It seems that the more you experience, the more you begin to have the experience while you are doing the experiencing, "hey - I am feeling pleasure, I am enjoying this food, I am enjoying this swim, I am enjoying this show, or wow I am suffering unde...
- Around The World In 80 Years on Jul 1, 2009 in lifespan Earth baggage time travel CNN relativity Milky Way light
80 years - that's what we have - a flash in the pan? An eternity? Let's investigate...Einstein once explained relativity like this:"When you are courting a beautiful woman, one hour seems like one second, when you are being tortured with hot coals, o...
- I Think Therefore I am Not on May 21, 2009 in Tibet India hemis Leh Drukpa Buddhism Ladakh Shangri-la
Ladakh is one of those special places - look it up on a map and it is impossibly far from anywhere, nestled high in the Himalayas, along the banks of the Indus, near the old silk road. It is influenced heavily by Tibet and Buddhism, yet exists in a...
- The Multi-Dimensional Universe on Apr 29, 2009 in Multiple Dimensions Saipan Flame Tree Space-time Yap Sailing Canoe Voyagers Apigigi Jet Lag
Last weekend I found myself amidst the crowds of the annual Flame Tree Arts festival on the island of Saipan. This is a local gathering of artists from the islands, replete with local music and entertainment, food from the islands of the Northern Ma...
- The Grass Is Always Greener on Apr 28, 2009 in tropical mango American Dream Bintang rice paddies Indonesia
When I step off the plane in a country like Indonesia, I look around, and feel a sort of bucolic/tropical/peaceful daydream come over me. The heavy equatorial air is almost succulent, and as it washes over your brain you start to slow down and dream...
