Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • _Born To Run:  A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen_ by Christopher McDougall Apparently, the author of this book was on The Daily Show a while back, but I didn’t remember that until R mentioned it. In any case, I came across this title when someone on Facebook had mentioned that he had just read it and become inspired. Since I have been reading books as if my…

  • Well… I’d like to post some pics, but I literally haven’t left the hotel room since we arrived – over 24 hours now, I think. I’m beyond cabin fever stage and into the acceptance that I could probably survive in a jail cell if I had to and didn’t have to worry about surviving the craziness of other jailers. Happy thoughts, right? 😉 Mostly, I’ve been convalescing my leg. It was pretty sore…

  • We’ve arrived safely in Hong Kong. Phuket Airport is nice and small, so it’s very easy to get through immigration and all that fun stuff. Our flight on Thai Air Asia was smooth and easy. We usually pay for the seats with more legroom since R is a big man and needs the space. Luckily, no one sat in-between us, so we had three seats for the two of us, which made it…

  • Seriously, cabin fever is setting in. I’m sick of the hotel bed. I want to jump in the swimming pool, go for a walk without pain or limping…. It has only been five days since the accident, but I would like for the healing process to be a little faster, please! Here’s the story of the accident, by the way. Each morning I wake up thinking I will be able to walk normally…

  • Okay, so…most people who know me know that I’m not the most adept on two-wheels. I have balance problems and control issues (literally and figuratively), so these alone are bad characteristics when behind the controls of a motorized two-wheeled machine. We had just had a lovely dinner a little north of Patong and decided to check out the Kamala beach area to see what kind of place it was. It was almost dead…

  • The days blur together and I rarely know what day or date it is, which is how vacation should be, right? 😉 So, sometime last week, when the weather broke (thankfully!), we went exploring the island a bit. A Thai lady recommended that we see Karon beach and others had mentioned it before. Also, one of R’s former colleagues had raved about it all the time, so we wanted to see what the…

  • I think I’ve sort of forgotten what pics I have posted and which ones I haven’t. So, there may be some repeats. For now, I’ll just put up the pics that aren’t related to anything in particular (mostly food and driving scenes!) to catch up. I’ll cover the ‘themes’ next! [shashin type=”photo” id=”5851,5852,5854,5855,5856,5857,5858,5859,5860,5862,5863,5864″ size=”small” columns=”max” order=”user” position=”center”] -T 😀

  • I’m a little behind in sharing what we’ve been up to other than our daily studying, swimming and overall enjoying of vacation. So, I’ll try to catch up a bit. Last week, we caught a break in the rainy weather and decided to head over to Phuket Town, which is quite close in terms of distance. It was about 5km away and took just about 20 minutes to get there by scooter. We…

  • Okay, so yesterday I posted about my little annoyance towards ‘self-help’ writing that seems to be the more popular way of getting published quickly. I expressed that I wanted my writing to be about the art of storytelling. This is STILL true; however, I must admit that it is a little bit hypocritical of me to be too harsh on the ‘self-help’ genre when I really do enjoy travel writing. Travel writing by…

  • So, lately I’ve been going between reading, writing for my dissertation, wishing I were doing more travel writing, wondering if I should be writing my life stories, and giving up on all of it by taking a long nap after playing some games on my iPad! 😛 I’d like to say I’m joking about the above sentence, but it’s no joke. Usually when I am on holiday, I do try to re-acquaint myself…

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