This blog is a record of Jim Geier’s winters in Chiang Mai, Thailand over all but one of the past eleven years. The visits are focused on daily yoga, meditation, and enjoying living for a short time in a very different culture with a different history. Also in the archives are records of my three pilgrimage walks on the Camino de Santiago, two starting in Saint Jean Pied de Port in southwestern France, walking 500 miles to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, and recently a walk starting in Seville in the south of Spain. Jim Geier is a former computer system administrator in the healthcare sector in the San Diego and Los Angeles areas. Jim is an avid road cyclist and former racer for more than 45 years, and has been an avid yoga student for the past 15 years.