A bunch of junk, a mystery closure, and arriving at GNP

The junkyard museum. There’s a scene about 20 minutes before the end of the 1983 cult movie Eddie and the Cruisers where the main character Eddie Wilson, frustrated by a music label’s rejection of his magnum opus, drives his girlfriend Joann …

When one pipe just isn’t enough

An unplanned stop. Looking at the photos in the Ewam Garden you can see that the morning had quite a hazy start. I didn’t know the severity of the problem but I did know that traveling mainly north but also …

In the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas

Ewam in the Buddhist tradition. In many ways, Buddhism is among the world’s most flexible religions. It’s based on the teachings of Siddhārtha Gautama who spent much of his life in what is now Uttar Pradesh (an area of northeastern …