Beautiful Rendition of Ashtanga Yoga Opening Mantra

HP: 20 Things I Learned From Traveling Around the World

Clayton Cornell and The Huffington Post present an interesting list of 20 things he learned while traveling around the world: Most places are as safe (or safer) than home. I remember confessing to my mother recently that I had a big night out in Budapest and stumbled back to my apartment at dawn. Her reaction […]

Ashoka The Great and Spreading Buddhism

In today’s selection — the first great unifier of large parts of the Indian subcontinent was Ashoka the Great (304-232 BCE), who converted to Buddhism after witnessing the bloody horrors of his own wars, and used the moderating influence of Buddhism to help unify the widely different peoples within in his realm. He sent missionaries […]

Drive Nacho Drive Reading List

http://www.drivenachodrive.com/ A interesting blog. “At the end of 2011 we quit our jobs and set off in our 1984 Volkswagen Vanagon, “Nacho”. Our plan? To circumnavigate the globe, slowly, while discovering culture, food, recreation, and emergency roadside Volkswagen maintenance.” Their reading list: http://www.drivenachodrive.com/our-essential-overlanding-reading-list/