{"id":1344,"date":"2005-09-06T21:56:05","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djcharlie.us\/log\/?p=45"},"modified":"2018-07-25T10:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T10:53:45","slug":"the-night-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/the-night-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m back in Bangkok now, but I leave tomorrow for Nong Khai on the Thailand\/Laos border. It&#8217;s a 12-hour train, but it departs at 8:30pm so I&#8217;ll arrive the next morning. Apparently I have just a bridge to cross from Nong Khai to reach the Laos capitol of Vientiane. I hear that there are shooting ranges in the heart of Vientiane where you can shoot AK-47&#8217;s and grenade launchers. It&#8217;s probably not really my style, but what the hell, I will shoot everything they have. In ten days I&#8217;ll leave Vientiane, or wherever I am, and come back to northern Thailand to meet Tenzin and crew.  Otherwise, today has been a productive day. I went to Golden Mountain temple and visited my monk friend Tony who gave me a 30 minute crash course on Thai pronounciation. I have an instructional book, but my pronounciation is weak at best. He helped me build some basic tenets and fill some gaps of misinformation.  I didn&#8217;t have any plans for this evening so I decided to walk around on the street. I popped into a 7-11 where they have a wealth of english-language magazines on a rack, so I browse through the latest Time, which of course has a torn-apart New Orleans on the cover. While I&#8217;m browsing a Thai guy takes note of the pendant on my necklace, which Tony gave me a few weeks ago at Golden Mountain. He speaks good english and we chat it up for a few minutes; I tell him that I&#8217;m looking for internets and we take a walk and he leads me there. On the way, we stop at a night temple which was unbelievable. It was a wat that I hadn&#8217;t been to and the place was filled with people. Everyone was chanting, and there was a process there that I hadn&#8217;t gone through before. Involving the usual incense and candle, but also a lotus flower. Really beautiful.  We walked around, just chillin, and he led me to this internet place where I am now. He&#8217;s down the street where I&#8217;ll meet up with him and apparently there&#8217;s a sweet Thai bar which we&#8217;ll hit up. He lives in Chiang Mai but is here for 4 days on business. 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