Welcome Home

Traveling by river taxis in Bangkok always makes me happy. Something about water and no traffic or traffic lights.

I had my surfboard in hand to drop it off while I take off to Cambodia. It was quite the scene walking through Bangkok with Mini Falda, my poka-dotted 9' longboard.

I met my couch surfing host Toom who has a compound out of central Bangkok, and 3 others, Glen from Australia, Ward from Belgium and Julian for Switzerland, all on very interesting journeys.

Ward is connected with a dutch NGO that is helping to create perma-culture solutions to help teach Cambodians how to make better use out of their resources in a self-sustaining way...including farming fish.

As we walked through the front gates of Toom's compound, I was greeted with "welcome home." That was particularly touching as they seem to carry the spirit of the Welcome Home Collective, a community building concept building from connections back home. The idea is you can travel the world and be welcomed home with familiar spirit and have a community of friends in different places.

Glen particularly told me about his Welcome Home spot in the mountains of Australia. He had left his university education with his best friend to live and build a community with an aboriginal tribe in the mountains of Australia. They live with the land with perma-culture concepts employed with the indigenous wisdoms of the aborigines. After over 13 years of being reared by them he has taken to the world to spread this vibrational energy, which he called song lines carried through out many cultures. He felt the need to break out of the shelter of the simple life to spread the knowledge and met similar folk that share a communal intention and permeate other culture.

In a sense we set out to meet each other, to spread permeating culture ideas and learn the multiple dimensions that people view as our world.