Hey everybody. Sorry I haven’t been online, we just lasy night got back from a week on Thailand. Gotta get that mid year break before the bleak slide into the hot long spring semester. Weather here and there is unbelievable. I guess global warming is going to give us some nice things before it kills us all. Right On!! Ok, that wasn’t quite as cheerful as I intended this email to be. I just spent a week on Koh Samui, one of the islands in the south. Never been south of Bangkok before and now I am kicking myself. Jungle Heaven if you get up away from the backpacking, full moon party thugs. Andrew at least is well aware of my feelings towards youth hostel rats, bless their cheesy little trust fund souls. Anyway, spent eight days at a retreat up the mountain in the jungle fasting, doing yoga, scrambling around the woods and taking some really foul tasting supplements. I feel amazing and maybe even have that clear eyed fanatical look one gets when all the toxins have been shifted.
We spent the last day and a half in Bangkok to get a giant city fix and then get home hours before I had to be back at work. Judging from the silliness of my first two hors here a work it was a VERY good idea to get away for a moment. I have discovered a real liking for Yoga. The woman who taught it at this retreat was very good and really got me excited about it, and surprise surprise- I’m pretty good at it. So far I have only done videos or books and a couple of isolated classes at the gym. But with a good teacher I learned more in a week than in the last year in total. Soon I will put my legs behind my head and float through the air, can’t wait. If I can sort out balance and strength issues now then when I fall at eighty five I will land catlike and spry instead of breaking my hips. Always thinkin’ ahead, that’s me.
Andrew, I scoured the Jungle for the Exploristas, but except for a couple of monkeys and clearing where junkies had hung out I found nothing. They are wily those Exploritas and hid themselves well. I even spent some time moving in the canopy saling from tree to tree on my extended wing flaps making chi chi noises so I would blend in but I never foind them. Perhaps Irian Jaya…..
Well folks, that’s it for now. Tucking back into work, edd work and looking forward to seeing Dad next week. I hope you are all well and I’ll post something more soon.
Chris
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I was just thinking how kinda bummed I was that I'd not heard from you in a while. I can't believe you like yoga. I know my prejudice must be just wrong, wrong wrong, but I it always struck be that only the very thin can do yoga, when I try to even sit cross legged, it hurts like hell. So elucidate my darling.
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Chris! That's Awesome! I figured you guys were just going to Thailand to lounge arounda bit and drink and eat (that's what I would have done, at least until read your account here) but it sounds like you had a great time. I'd love to take some classes with someone who knows what they're doing. I can't help but feel like my form is way off on the poses. Mom, yoga is not just for the thin. It is for anyone and you don't have to start with putting your foot behind your head.
Chris, the location of Camp Discovery! is an extremely well guarded secret and though you picked a likely jungle, you efforts were in vain. Good to hear from you.
What kind of supplements did you take? I play with yoga sometimes, but never keep it up beyond a couple of weeks or so.
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