B-2: Why Southeast Asia?

It turns out the time is right!

Since I studied Thai massage way back in the twentieth century, I have been curious about traveling to Thailand, and Southeast Asia. This opportunity to travel, learn and teach, have given me a jump-start to starting on plans I have been steeping for decades!

Aside from the food, the history and opportunities to learn and grow, the mysticism of the east has captured my attention in the form of ancient healing modalities, temple sites and modern adventure. Shortly, I will provide a general itinerary for my travels, but it is my hope to go ‘off-trail’ when the opportunity arises to safely explore and find the kind of growth alongside of the return to my ‘old-self’, that adventurous traveller who wandered through the Middle East, Eastern & Western Europe in the late 80’s and early 90’s.

What am I seeking?

Maybe it’s a bit like art, where “I might not know a lot about art, but I know what I like (and why,)” and when the feeling or lesson hits, I look forward to exploring it, writing about it, and seeing what things may come!

If the only regrets we have in life are the things we avoided out of fear, then sure, there is still a lesson to learn there. Those are the opportunities that haunt our imaginations and sideline dreams when we are younger - and sometimes, into and through, adjulthood. I am sure that, because it is a journey, our ability to process, experience or fulfill an opportunity we ran from in the past - may, at that time, have just been a part of our journey.

Really, it can get a bit maddening to fumble around with philosophical questions like that.

Ultimately, the decisions we make, make us who we are. I wouldn’t change that. It doesn’t mean that I am happy to have grown up in a generation with almost no documentation of my youthful adventures…