So starts my path to enlightenment. Kevin and I turn down the street indicated on our Google Map directions and it’s pretty clear, immediately, that this isn’t what we’re looking for. Kevin immediately suggests we ask someone, which is super easy for him to suggest because he doesn’t speak Thai, so he never has to do the asking. I’m shy, so I decide to creep down the street on the motorbike first, seeing if maybe, somehow, this street lined with bars might suddenly turn into the kind of street that has a meditation monastery on it. It doesn’t, obviously. I roll up to a motorbike taxi driver and show him my phone, asking if he knows where the monastery is. … Continue reading My 3 Day Vipassana Mediation Retreat in Pattaya