PROMPT: Missed Attractions

Bloganuary writing prompt
Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

From Bangalore: Yercaud, Tirupati, and Kanchipuram are all within a five-hour drive, but we haven’t visited.

I’ve got to say that the Pandemic was good for seeing a lot of destinations that were too long for a daytrip, but near enough to do with a couple / few days. We saw many sights in Karnataka, and a few in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Because of uncertainty around flying and getting caught in shifting quarantine requirements, we did a lot more ground transportation trips closer to Bangalore that we were pretty certain we could get home from if there was an uptick in numbers.

DAILY PHOTO: Yeh-Liu Fishing Harbor

DAILY PHOTO: Bangka Longshan Temple, Taipei

DAILY PHOTO: 2024 Republic Day Flower Show, Lalbagh

DAILY PHOTO: Thar be Dragons

DAILY PHOTO: Kaohsiung Music Center [高雄流行音樂中心]

White structure, lefthand-side foreground

DAILY PHOTO: Tainan Wude Hall (台南武德殿)

Built as a dōjō, a martial arts training hall, during the period of Japanese rule, this historic building is now part of the Zhongyi Elementary School complex. It’s right beside the Confucian Temple.

DAILY PHOTO: Yehliu Geopark on a Dreary Winter Day

DAILY PHOTO: Wanxing Temple, Kaohsiung

Five Wise Lines (Jan 2024)

Every so often I run into a sentence that blows my mind a little bit. Here are a few recent examples:

We may be in the universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

William james

One must read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles to be an educated man.

Old chinese adage (As Translated by ha jin in The Banished Immortal)

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg

Distrust of grammar is the first requisite of philosophizing.

Ludwig wittgenstein

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

John stuart mill