Greetings! I am Jim Geier.
This blog is a record of my fifth successive winter in Bangkok & Chiang Mai, Thailand in late December 2016 and January 2017. The intent is to share my journey, a little of what I did each day with a few pictures of what I saw, the places visited, and the food I ate.
I have been to Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand for 4-5 weeks each of the previous four winters. Each of those trips was very different than the others even though I stayed at the same hotel in Bangkok and guest house in Chiang Mai. My motivation for this return to Chiang Mai is to do yoga every day at Wild Rose Yoga in Chiang Mai, visit temples in and around the city, and do enough walking around the old city and into the jungle to break in a new pair of hiking boots for my second walk on the Camino de Santiago in Spain planned for April, 2017. I also enjoy the change of scenery & culture while I am able to work half-time at my job as a computer system administrator for a large medical group in the Los Angeles area.
I intend to make a few posts of events leading up to my return to Thailand and then I hope to post every day while I am in Bangkok for two days and almost four weeks in Chiang Mai.
If you are interested in seeing my blog for my recent walk on the Camino de Santiago in Spain and the previous three visits to Thailand, the links are:
Cmino de Santiago blog:
2016 Spring: http://www.jimcamino2016.blogspot.com/
Thailand blogs:
2015-2016: http://www.jim2016thailand.blogspot.com/
2014-2015: http://www.jim2015thailand.blogspot.com/
2013-2014: http://www.jim2014thailand.blogspot.com/
and the link to 200+ pictures from my 2012-2013 Thailand visit is in Picasa at:
As I have said a few times, I’ll try to keep the posts short, but there is much to see in Thailand and thus, much to say.
And just to reiterate my thought on “the journey”, I’ll repeat here a favorite quotation, the last sentence in a book “Up Country” by Nelson DeMille:
The journey home is never a direct route; it is, in fact, always circuitous,
and somewhere along the way, we discover that the journey is more significant than the destination, and that the people we meet along the way will be the traveling companions of our memories forever.
“The journey is more significant than the destination…” Absolutely! And what a great journey I have been on! I am so grateful for the journey, and the people I have met all along the way.
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