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On The Write Path

by Kåre เลียม Enga

Rated: 13+ · Book · Travel · #2032403

ON THE WRITE PATH: travel journal for Around-the-World in 2015, 16, 18.

For there are many paths.

Visitor's Center of Woolaroc in Oklahoma, Osage Nation. Tribute to Native America.

A tlog. A travel blog. A keeping-track of my trials, er.. travels.

February 26, 2015 until ... June 18,2015.
January 12, 2016 until February 15, 2016.
November 13 to 30 2018 ... 2019,

2020: Taiwain.

I went nowhere in 2021.

2022: Portugal, Thailand.

Will include: Hawai'i, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Untied Arab Emirates, Portugal, Norway, Ireland and... (2015) ... Norway and Estonia (2016), México (2018), Taiwan, Balkans, Baltics, Turkey, Costa Rica, Nicaragua.

Vi får se.

"Where I have traveled, stayed and visited. Over 181 places."

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Oct 26, 2024 at 3:59pm
In response to "How do I define travel?"

Wordsmitty ✍️ I've been 'home' 6 months... 4 months too long. I applied for a new passport. Hoping to travel come December. Will make an entry of possibilities in this blog!

Wordsmitty ✍️

Jul 8, 2024 at 2:17am
In response to "How do I define travel?"

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Mar 22, 2024 at 10:27pm
In response to "Ides of August "

Wordsmitty ✍️ Many people seek thrills. Boring moments are quickly forgotten. I try to look deeper... still boring. But... someone was born that day and someone died. All days matter to someone. We're all just passing through...

Wordsmitty ✍️

Mar 22, 2024 at 1:45pm
In response to "Ides of August "

I remember reading this. Seven months later I comment (reminder comment from "333 steps"

)

I also like watching the scenery and people as I pass through or over. The open land always says so much in its shades of green, trimmed here and there stretching across its curves and hills with man's intrusions popping up once in a while.

Never thought of what the day tastes like. Sound and smell, yeah. I'll have to think about that more and see what I come up with.

Thanks for taking us along with you, but without being in the heat.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Mar 22, 2024 at 4:11am
In response to "January 2024 angst"

Wordsmitty ✍️ Forgot to check... Tokyo? I could visit you in Japan? Cherry Blossom Time. Don't miss it!

Of course, as you know, I went back to Montana for two weeks and returned via Taiwan.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jan 25, 2024 at 11:53am
In response to "Expatriation? "

Sumojo Thanks for reminding me to read this article in full. I wonder about the flip side... there's also an urge to nest in a safe cave... kinda like a hobbit.

My experiences living in Costa Rica and Thailand have remolded me.

Yet, at this moment I just want to curl up and nest.

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Sumojo

Jan 23, 2024 at 10:02pm
In response to "Expatriation? "

Thanks for the link Kare. I read and agreed with every word especially This journey, sometimes difficult and lonely, is also a journey towards understanding and acceptance. It teaches us humility, patience, and open-mindedness.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jan 20, 2024 at 8:01am
In response to "Orange is a color of winter."

Lyn's a Witchy Woman Yes and no. Country people are poor. Survival is #1, not health. Think of factory towns in the Great Lakes in the 50s and 60s.

The problem last year included Laos and Myanmar. The burning is sugarcane and corn. The governments made a mistake by allowing burning in February and in Thailand there was an uproar because it affected tourism in Chiang Mai... $$$ is king.

There are solutions but local people need to be consulted and big-money corporations that buy up the products and encourage production at any cost must be regulated or reined in. Education and consequences... right now there isn't much of either.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Jan 18, 2024 at 3:29pm
In response to "Orange is a color of winter."

Aren't they worried about putting all that smoke into the air, how it will affect other growth as well as the people who reside there.

December 10, 2022 at 1:55pm

#1041650

Some cultural differences: Thailand vs Euro-American.

I am amazed at some cultural differences across the globe. Wehn I go back, I'll have to be aware of holiday schedules in Thailand but basically it's 7 days/week. The post office in Udon Thani is open 11-21... every day. The trains run on the same schedule... every day. Markets tend to be open... every day. Night markets have their day of the week... every week. Most places open late (after 10,11,12...). Few go out in the heat of the day. 7-11 is always open.

Here in the US there's a notion of working 5 days and 2 off. Thais work. When foreigners come to Thailand it seems they dress in vacation clothing (like their days off back home). Yes, it's hot; but, skimpy outfits on men and women just give the impression that you have no modesty or self restraint. I dress as I wish to be perceived... as a professional. I don't wear beach clothing 'just because I can'. Yes, heat bothers me. I carry water. I take it slow. No need to complain or have a tantrum.

And attitude. Thais are passive, but they are mostly kind and tolerant and unafraid of strangers. This 'stranger-danger' based on fear is very American and fortunately not global. It's a disease of naivity, entitlement and narrow-mindedness. I'm not saying that Thais are gleefully friendly. They're not. Most interactions are transactual. But tolerance rules. When I met Ponnya I was surprised that he grabbed my hand and led me around. No one blinked or said anything. And if they did, Ponnya ignored them.

The judgemental, puritanical attitude common in America (left-wing-right-wing-whatever) just isn't Thai. It's sad that some may see this passive approach as demonstrating weakness; but, Thai/Lao culture is old, much older than modern Western Europe or newbie North America. It's strong, steeped in tradition and like India, knows that patience wins the day.

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