Thailand...as always a visit to the legendary Jim Thompson's House

(All Photos by Tavarua)

"Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you - it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you… Hopefully, you leave something good behind."

-Anthony Bourdain 

" Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle. " -Vladimir Nabokov

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone" - Goethe

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better." - Henry Rollins 

"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting." - Haruki Murakami

  "The best you can hope for is to live in a present so full and all-encompassing that you lose any sense of future or past." - Jonathan Carroll

Wild Game Recipe - White Tail - Back Strap at The Traveler's Nest...

 Tonight - White Tail Deer Back Strap with Boar Sausages and Game Sauce...

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience".

- James Beard