Manny Muros: It's hard to believe that we have only been here 30 + hours…. It feels like we have had a week worth of experience already! The intensity of Bangalore was hard to digest with out taking short breaks in the sanctuary of our hotel…. This morning we boarded a bus to Tiru… It …
Manny says, "It's all everyone said it would be… and more." True. I am sitting in a small room the size of my bathroom at home, in front of a keyboard which has been used by too many hands, which has typed too many words, and which seems to forget every now and then how …
The traveler knows: departure is the front side of return. Those who stay behind see only the farewell; and hope for the wave hello. For those who are here, on this side of the journey, I leave our travel information. My regrets to a couple of colleagues, to whom I gave an incorrect return date. …
Typhoid 0.5cc IM. Tetanus 0.5cc IM. Hepatitis A 1cc IM. Polio 0.5cc IM. Mefloquine Hydrochloride 1/1 week. When you travel from the United States to other areas of the world, you are strongly advised to renew your boosters: a couple of days of discomfort to stave off life-threatening or life-shorting diseases endemic to your destination. …
Manny Muros: Our journey is becoming real after many months of planning and preparations. Tickets bought, visas received, shots taken, and the empty back-pack is sitting in my room. My time has become measured as every minute here has increased in value. The time spent with my sons this weekend has had an extra sweetness …
One aspect of travel I greatly enjoy is the rush of colors and smells and sounds, the intense (and sometimes forced) awakening of what may have become complacent senses. The teaching of Buddhist Tantra is a realization that you are not an isolated chuck of matter, not part of a duality (you vs everything else), …
The buzz, my friends, is that with 1 gigabyte of storage, plus the ability to install and run personalized programs, I have in effect taken my entire computer workspace and stuck it on a half-ounce chip.
"The gross body which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, viz. sound, touch, colour, taste, and odour, I am not; the five cognitive sense-organs, viz. the organs of speech, locomotion, grasping, …
As he nears the quay his step quickens, and he smiles and shakes his head in wonder at where his feet are leading him.