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Goooooood Morning, Vietnaaaaaaam!
Bangkok was just a one-night stand, then I flew on to Ho Chi Minh City. Here, I met up with my Bend friend, Patrick. He founded Ruffwear (https://ruffwear.com/), which has products manufactured in Vietnam. It was cool to get to see him here and experience a taste of his business life. This morning he flew to Korea, giving me an opportunity to regroup in the company house for a few days before traveling onward myself. It appears I’m running out of room on the map, but there are probably some places worth visiting before falling off the edge of the earth!
There are two new photo galleries from Northern Pakistan. The second one might seem particularly long and repetitive, but close inspection will reveal in each image a masterpiece artwork, works that are the cumulative effort of generations. I hope you’ll appreciate this special art that I was unexpectedly treated to, a type of art -and connection- that is quite literally disappearing from our world.
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The very best of the doors, special guest artists the stones & other functional art
editors note: for best effect scroll down to the first picture: 1…click on the arrow top right 2…click on pause icon top left 3…click on info icon “i” top left…then scroll thru with right arrow
-Khaplu & the Hushe Valley https://balloonbill.smugmug.com/Other/Khaplu-Hushe-Valley/
-stones & doors https://balloonbill.smugmug.com/Other/Stones-And-Doors/
extra goodies
understanding critical choices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0TRFBC4qdg
Gooooood Morning Viet Nam…..Robin Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erf2iFHG44M
What a fantastic trip to another world. My favorite photo was the one of the young calf in the back of the jeep looking out the window with the other passenger. The animals are almost part of the family. The doors series reminded me of the various barn doors we had on the farm I grew up on. They never get replaced they just keep getting fixed, like old boots.
There’s something about those lean mountain panoramas that just seems divine and perfect like in the scenes from the movie Meetings with Remarkable Men from the 70s where Gurjieff grew up.
Thanks for posting.
Agree Tim….This is the best Education one could ever get from some of the most interesting and remote parts of the World
Very glad to know The Balloonman and be able to share his experiences here at the tent.
How about those Bridges !
no moss under Bills’ shoes, a true ‘rolling stone’. Happy to say I shook his hand a few years back.
I remember that encounter HR….great !
The people invariably are happy and eager to share, yet they have so little. I suspect many have never even seen a gold or silver coin.
great to see the pics of Stones & Doors.