world in slow motion Best Trips 2015 -- National Geographic Traveler Notes on a 10 Day Silent Meditation Retreat | AlmostFearless.com Today’s post is by Drew, my husband. This year he did a 10 day meditation retreat in southern Thailand starting on New Year’s Eve. I was so fascinated by his experience, I asked him to write about it. I rolled into Suann Mokkh monastery with what I expected would be plenty of time. Ten minutes later, they closed registration. A very near miss. It seemed the price for rolling in late was that I was given a pink mosquito net. None of these things bothered me in the slightest though, I WAS HERE! In the hours between registration and silence, I set up my living space and chatted with a few fellow meditators, none of whom were American, as far as I could tell (I have something of an ear for American, being one myself). Also, If you are as cynical as I am, you will spend much of your first hours within the group sizing people up, deciding with utter certainty who will and will not make it to the end of the retreat. “It says ‘Big Bear!” Man, did I call that? And the meditation, you ask?
Incredible Things About Traveling You Can Learn From These 15 Inspiring Movies I enjoy traveling. It’s an amazing experience to explore this big world, understand different culture and meet people from around the world. How will you ever know what another country is really like if you’ve never been there? Besides, it’s such a big world out there that we’ll regret not seeing it with our own eyes before we die. Here I’ve collected some of the incredible things about traveling from 15 movies which will get you pack your stuff and go traveling. 1. “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. 2. “Miner’s Wife: Are you two looking for work? 3. “You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. 4. “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up.” – From Jack in Titanic 5. “We do not follow maps to buried treasure and X never, ever marks the spot.” – From Indiana Jones in “Last Crusade” 6. “Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. 7.
Getting Sick on a Round-the-World Trip Most people do get sick on the road at one point in their travels. If you are lucky, your illness will require a quick trip to the doctor and some antibiotics or anti-parasite medication. If you are me, your illnesses will straddle several continents, a multitude of body parts and an exploration of Eastern and Western medicine – all in the span of one year. Long-term readers of the blog know that I used to have a ‘days of sickness’ counter in the righthand column, but removed it because the sick days quickly outnumbered the healthy days and I stopped counting altogether. I started the trip with a cold and had I not been so stubborn about ignoring it, I would have been able to avoid a lot of doctor’s visits and insurance claims. What started in April 2008 as a classic cold in bone-chillingly damp Punta Arenas blossomed into bronchitis, and then (because I refused to admit how sick I really was) went downhill from there. The tiny village of Verkhnyaya Ivolga, Siberia. Do: Don’t: -Jodi
The 24 Most Terrifying Places In The World To Look Down If you’re afraid of heights, turn back now. These are the most incredible (and mortifying) places to stand...and look down. I didn’t know I could be afraid of heights while looking through a computer screen. I F*cking Love India | AlmostFearless.com So we fly into New Delhi, deciding immediately to take the rest of the day off from travel, as the baby squirmed, fussed and whimpered the entire two hour flight. We used our trusty Lonely Planet India — a tome, which I only pull out when I’m day dreaming about where to go next — or like now, when I’m sitting at the New Delhi airport with a fussy baby, lugging all my belongings, with no backup plan. We shut the book, thwamp. Shuffle. Whoosh. Out on our balcony, I snap pictures of the street view. I’m being oblivious in my interest, face pressed again my camera, until I notice the coconut walla on the street below is trying to convince me to buy a coconut by miming throwing one up to me, in it’s green hull, like a football. They bring us room service. Train tickets. This is a the part where Drew and I fight. “You can’t buy tickets here. Drew doesn’t say a word. “Wait! “Wait, wait, let me show you.” I said, “No!” I felt bad about that later. Drew and I didn’t talk about it until later.
Broadway Direct | Features | The Five Best Things to Do in Times Square It’s called the Crossroads of the World, because some 360,000 people walk through the heart of it every single day — about 42 million visitors a year, the world’s most visited tourist attraction. It’s called the Great White Way, because of the huge illuminated signs that have served as its signature ever since Broadway was one of the first streets to be electrified more than a century ago, now supplemented by Big Brother–size video screens. If Craig Dykers has his way, Times Square will be called The Lobby of the Theatre District. Dykers is cofounder of Snohetta, the architecture firm hired by the city to lead the five-year reconstruction project of Times Square’s pedestrian plazas, due to be completed in 2015. It is the latest transformation of an area of midtown Manhattan — roughly bounded by 40th Street to the south and 53rd Street in the north, between 6th and 9th Avenues — that seems to reinvent itself every couple of decades. People-Watching Celebrating Exploring Shopping Eating