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Thank you for the Moments

There are so many people who have made the last few years worth while and where do I start but with the people I first met that have taught me about kindness and self-worth, that have been an ear when…

Living in Pai, Eating at the Laundromat and the Journey

When you travel it is about seeing the sights and experiencing as much of a place, culture and people as you can but when you live somewhere I find you form habits, places to eat, where you shop, get your laundry done. I put travel on pause while I’ve been in Northern Thailand have come to call Pai just north of Chiang Mai home for the last year or so.

When you have no idea what to do just do something

Have you ever been stuck between numerous unable to decide what direction to take. I've faced that choice many times and what I know today is that ultimately it doesn't matter what you do as long as you do something. You can't keep all possibilities open, that just isn't an option and if you choose more than one or two can you really give your all to either?

Half the Battle is just Showing Up

It's hard to be dedicated to something, I know that because I've always kept my foot in one door and the other out in case it all went to hell. It's not impossible to be dedicated while making other plans but I find it much simpler and more focused to just go for it.

Run and Gun vs Settling In

Since I've been traveling I find myself in one of 3 modes, where I run and gun from place to place doing the tourist thing or staying in one place and settling in. I've done it multiple times on this trip. At the beginning it tends to be the former where you know that there are more things to see and do than you could ever hope to accomplish.

To wonder is to hope so keep reaching

I guess I've always been one to wonder, its one of those things that comes with an over active imagination and an over active sense of thought. It comes with thinking more than acting. It is the pain and the strength. I carry that with me everywhere. I can't not, that's just who I am.

A Few Days of Doing Muay Thai

I've done 6 sessions of Muay Thai in Pai since I arrived and I am really loving it. It is tough and I am sweating buckets when we finish but I always feel good and slowly but surely there is progress happening. I didn't expect to be learning a martial arts ever. I've never been a physical person but here I am and it just feels good to push myself physically in a way that I've never done before.

Seven Days of getting Physical

So it's been a week since I decided I wanted to learn a martial arts (thanks Mike), in this case Muay Thai in Thailand. I knew that if I go as I am now that the jump might be too much for me to handle and I would probably quit. I don't want and can't let that happen so I started sparring and run/walking just to get into the habit of being physical since the most physical I get is just doing a ton of walking and trekking.