tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87474183420250744692024-03-05T03:43:31.561-07:00PaperPinwheelTravels and TribulationsJenn/PaperPinwheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04453967073045415165noreply@blogger.comBlogger492125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747418342025074469.post-90375542555432841282014-11-25T13:50:00.001-07:002014-11-25T13:50:24.522-07:00palyul throne holder<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9S7Kl57zzRg" width="480"></iframe>Jenn/PaperPinwheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04453967073045415165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747418342025074469.post-11928636650802362772014-08-13T17:48:00.001-06:002014-08-14T06:02:59.734-06:00Ganzi to Palyul<div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtzLTC1abHEBg0rk2KvcKrFFNonnLEhWtBxtb7d6_bE4QeL137tsON6dVWFeNAQxk-0xegqcuAaXLTYvUsM4T2AJoOeYDkJbKU_STUJeD97OQD7eMWiyfnuP7kiC5XmCjoZg3XXsGzqw/s640/blogger-image--53661802.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtzLTC1abHEBg0rk2KvcKrFFNonnLEhWtBxtb7d6_bE4QeL137tsON6dVWFeNAQxk-0xegqcuAaXLTYvUsM4T2AJoOeYDkJbKU_STUJeD97OQD7eMWiyfnuP7kiC5XmCjoZg3XXsGzqw/s640/blogger-image--53661802.jpg"></a></div><div><br></div><div>Nomad tent and yaks</div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MNj1c50tWZxsBW4-WGgFT2X5zMo9dIqduScfB_8doGzQyEpZt5PtRBs1Q7imu25YgwYGPkmluUi_l_LWBcrl7gmWwkN072ZfB4rcukMMv_zr55Ng92Z1YOVIYPZCSpt4m7CAZwDlJ28/s640/blogger-image--556363439.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MNj1c50tWZxsBW4-WGgFT2X5zMo9dIqduScfB_8doGzQyEpZt5PtRBs1Q7imu25YgwYGPkmluUi_l_LWBcrl7gmWwkN072ZfB4rcukMMv_zr55Ng92Z1YOVIYPZCSpt4m7CAZwDlJ28/s640/blogger-image--556363439.jpg"></a></div><div><br></div><div>Grazing horses</div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjjtkq18NzNX2lJKbchkUKheNy5kBvhB1mZLJqc1QXZcfr7njzcyppJkg5AtrheJI-SfCa_t3-g84NQfJ1d0oIPQuJgH2i1ww-SmFdn9hoz-EhtNQJu6IUdxsLeYT8zfmyDVG5C-P4Uc/s640/blogger-image--814078053.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjjtkq18NzNX2lJKbchkUKheNy5kBvhB1mZLJqc1QXZcfr7njzcyppJkg5AtrheJI-SfCa_t3-g84NQfJ1d0oIPQuJgH2i1ww-SmFdn9hoz-EhtNQJu6IUdxsLeYT8zfmyDVG5C-P4Uc/s640/blogger-image--814078053.jpg"></a></div><div><br></div>K taking a hit of oxygen going over a high pass<div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgreWHXc7OZRz_7xDeMl41MLcazvkyWoR2fo9KK1Wcvp7fuoeuIHLv_TJsegyLsJIE0it6oWK98OVBXNFtPVS_sTRU9vjpBtOjRLYY9lhJdD3ascy3uiw7KfZjgECflwe8Zrp25B0R1Lmc/s640/blogger-image--660830489.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgreWHXc7OZRz_7xDeMl41MLcazvkyWoR2fo9KK1Wcvp7fuoeuIHLv_TJsegyLsJIE0it6oWK98OVBXNFtPVS_sTRU9vjpBtOjRLYY9lhJdD3ascy3uiw7KfZjgECflwe8Zrp25B0R1Lmc/s640/blogger-image--660830489.jpg"></a></div><div><br></div><div>Small village</div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXPMhbXUF3mYydsZPxQsDH4Dz1ALmp65SKkqVdsYImBU3Z__JLsLbaH-tcgyDYYWMNDD2KWC7k_3xUYBkuyixUYAgCZonY5N3-PLwaz3ob2jYMWAkl4FmCOiIDEinBJuXipgInzjFMv74/s640/blogger-image--953702808.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXPMhbXUF3mYydsZPxQsDH4Dz1ALmp65SKkqVdsYImBU3Z__JLsLbaH-tcgyDYYWMNDD2KWC7k_3xUYBkuyixUYAgCZonY5N3-PLwaz3ob2jYMWAkl4FmCOiIDEinBJuXipgInzjFMv74/s640/blogger-image--953702808.jpg"></a></div><div><br></div>One of the many archways decorated with flowers and greenery and the Yangsi's picture that we drove through en route to Palyul. These were erected by the small villages nearby (starting three hrs away), in order to welcome the Yangsi when he would drive by on the day of his arrival at Palyul.</div><div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDADqo-7euPJGZlcdgRy5-cVbucz-hL_z2lCi4OqSYfrr9dn13sOz-JXP9RHsGwN4OUvxbE9_5xpyYI4Yi7iyrnnbBcOPFzpuyLh8-6PFha-jtvUQ9Dh_3G_1VCJTmuj4Evcj3L9R2qTs/s640/blogger-image--1195359972.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDADqo-7euPJGZlcdgRy5-cVbucz-hL_z2lCi4OqSYfrr9dn13sOz-JXP9RHsGwN4OUvxbE9_5xpyYI4Yi7iyrnnbBcOPFzpuyLh8-6PFha-jtvUQ9Dh_3G_1VCJTmuj4Evcj3L9R2qTs/s640/blogger-image--1195359972.jpg"></a></div><div><br></div><div>Sweet bathroom at the site of road construction (when you are stuck waiting for two hours, you will definitely have to pee. How 'bout in a bathroom that is a hole in the floor which shoots directly into the river?).</div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgPxgZyU5cgGYjrRyqM5aQUb3GtdTxhYoQ6c4ScNg6975C4Fz9DQNdg44_jb-57p_yGJq5DNYKWXaS-4VyIbSge3MDs0LmykirygUmyXVkGcYDM7WfoerBK8XAr-DdByp6rchr9io9TM/s640/blogger-image-1835186748.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgPxgZyU5cgGYjrRyqM5aQUb3GtdTxhYoQ6c4ScNg6975C4Fz9DQNdg44_jb-57p_yGJq5DNYKWXaS-4VyIbSge3MDs0LmykirygUmyXVkGcYDM7WfoerBK8XAr-DdByp6rchr9io9TM/s640/blogger-image-1835186748.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div>Jenn/PaperPinwheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04453967073045415165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747418342025074469.post-75773736213950836462014-08-13T17:46:00.001-06:002014-08-14T06:05:05.302-06:00Palyul--At Long Last!<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja2VjJKEnkG6nKYwyZChhCHr3X1ZcZEHDkTl6ls2w1J1G-3i774VE_yrmEB32xp73ECajmyLZwRaLVu4i9z1VhA6r6wT0unIkGRHeFSmZnUCorl8zUXlZ4ahwvQjFWKDoiOTbr8yBsszw/s640/blogger-image--1155114704.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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"he's a chodpa," the monk told us. "he sits next to the water at night and practices." the monk beseeched him to sing a bit of chod for us and he kindly began, expertly turning his snakeskin drum back and forth, ringing his bell, blowing his thigh bone horn, there beside his hut...so so inspirational! who practices like this nowadays!?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Jenn/PaperPinwheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04453967073045415165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747418342025074469.post-68205820971949632722014-03-24T07:07:00.001-06:002014-03-24T20:27:24.688-06:00back from bumthangand so we've returned <br>
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after clouds, magnolias dripping <br>
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a conch that flew through the sky<br>
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a car whipping through pine, bamboo, rhodedendron <br>
creeping through snow and mud<br>
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a chorten that subdued a demoness,<br>
a statue made by a thousand dakinis,<br>
a walking stick that grew into a tree,<br>
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a lake which hid a treasure<br>
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There are crosswalks and garbage cans on the sidewalks, next to open sewers. The post office sells stamps of Buddhas. The city is full of teenagers in tight jeans. Apartment buildings are painted with pictures of elephants, monkeys, horses and Kalachakra symbols. Butcher shops are closed and the selling of meat is banned for this entire first month of the new year! Furthermore, in this singular country, Guru Rinpoche and Yeshe Tsogyal spots abound...<br />
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A short distance from Thimpu, you turn off onto, yes, another rocky dirt road in, yes, another tiny car. You take this road up, yes, another mountain, for about an hour and a half--making your way through mud and slushy snow, getting out to move logs aside--the taxi driver reassuring you, "this is nothing, mam," until you reach the "parking lot," marked by a few prayer flags.<br />
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A short walk up a hill and there it is--Tshelung Nye--a place where Guru Rinpoche spent 4 months meditating. A place where a sweet monk, teeth red from doma, will usher you into the shrine room where a lama and men and women are practising, staring at you as you try to make offerings to the shrine which includes a small Guru Rinpoche statue--a ter Duddul Dorje pulled from a large boulder near where Guru Rinpoche meditated.<br />
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The monk will then usher you outside to a small table where a tea party for two has been arranged with a large tea pot, fancy red cups, cubes of sugar, a small creamer of milk and an old tin of what appears to be puffed rice coated in butter. <br />
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At this Nye, there is a small hut built where Guru Rinpoce meditated. There is a giant boulder from which the ter was revealed. There is a spring of long-life water made by Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal. And then there are 18 other spots, too! An indentation in a rock, made by Guru Rinpoche's elbow, his bathing pool, Yeshe Tsogyal's bathing pool, his head imprint, a rock in which he imprinted his mala, and oh so many more I can't seem to remember! Such an amazing place!<br />
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Although mind you, it somehow took us leaving three times, coming back three times and requesting the red-teethed monk three times, before he actually decided to take us up behind the temple to show us the 18 sites. He dashed through the forest, alongside a clear rushing creek, jumping from rock to rock as though a wood sprite. And at each spot he insisted we pose so he could take our pictures for us. So sweet.<br />
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And that was Tshelung Nye. Oh, and when we got to the bottom of the hill, our taxi driver looked relieved to see us. He said someone had told him we had already left. "Where could we have gone?" Keith laughed, gesturing to the forest and the fact that we were in the middle of nowhere on the top of a mountain. "In the jungle there are plants that if you touch, they make you crazy so you don't know where you are and you get lost," he said. Oh. <br />
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A small white temple next to apples trees, a brown horse walking by. Longchenpa's walking stick that grew into a tree. 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This is the plane that will take you to this magical land.<br>
This is the Amitayus mandala on the ceiling in the airport.<br>
This is archery in national dress on the New Year.<br>
This is Bhutanese grafiti.<br>
This is the gas station painted in traditional Buddhist motifs.<br>
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Jenn/PaperPinwheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04453967073045415165noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747418342025074469.post-35231784299481102562013-06-17T13:34:00.003-06:002013-06-17T13:37:26.507-06:00Before-To Be Continued<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jenn/PaperPinwheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04453967073045415165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747418342025074469.post-57614723781892187472013-06-17T13:23:00.001-06:002013-06-17T13:23:35.648-06:00The Rabbit Hole--months ago<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Since bringing home our 1976 Avion, Keith and I have fallen down a rabbit hole--questions running through our minds from the moment we wake up to the moment we fall asleep. How do we clean all this nasty mouse poop out of here? What colors do we want to paint the walls? How do we charge our batteries? Can we really afford a composting toilet and solar panels? Where can we purchase biodiesel for our truck? And how much would it cost us to run on WVO in the future?<br />
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We hope to boondock/live off the grid for most of the year and it's all a bit overwhelming! Especially since we only have 19 more days to remodel and figure everything out before we have two weeks to pack and then need to be moved out of our house and living in the Avion for K's last month of residency! Phew! We have our work cut out for us!<br />
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