What is Virya Kala?

The story of an adventure, from inception to the distant beyond through the lens of the road underfoot. Vīrya, essential human life energy ~ Kāla, specific time, here and now. This Sanskrit conjugate frames the totality of our journey and as the adventure unfolds so too will the richness of our perspectives.

Where we're at

It's all happening, all the time, and until then, we may have ventured too far out to sea for the length of anchor rode we have aboard. Hmmm ⛵

RECENT ADVENTURES

The Great Ocean Road

February 7, 2017 by Dina in Fauna, Flora, Wrap-up | No Comments

Oh-ee, it’s the RV life for me During our “walkabout” year in Australia we lived in a small motor home named Hermie. Starting in Melbourne, we hustled to get our new home on wheels together; upgrading to massive solar panels and batteries to support our tech, fiberglass patching, painting, packing, unpacking, repacking… and enjoying acro … Read More

Life in St. John’s

October 2, 2016 by Dina in Cities, Sublime Routine, Wrap-up | 1 Comment

Why are we here?  To learn more about why and how we got to the island at the end of the world check out: Finding hearth and home in Newfoundland As a respite from our nomadic roaming we settled down in the friendly city of St. John’s Newfoundland for 2 months in late fall of … Read More

Finding hearth and home in Newfoundland

October 1, 2016 by Eric in Anthropology, Polyphonic Dissonance, Wrap-up | 6 Comments

Newfoundland is a land of rugged beauty and happily coexistent contradictions. Alpine lakes at sea level. Dull gray days and bright multicolored houses. Weather that shifts from Florida-like heat and humidity to crisp glacial breezes in a day. The freshest, cleanest fish oftentimes battered and deep fried. Huge icebergs dwarfing tiny hamlets. We could go on and on.

Acroing our way around the world

August 2, 2015 by Eric in Anthropology | 14 Comments

Living a placeless existence has its abundance of charms and its remarkable tolls. With a lively infusion of playful acrobatics in our lives, we’ve continued to stay well connected, introduced countless folks to the practice, and unlocked numerous adventures that we would never have had along the way otherwise. Additionally, we’ve found that when connecting with most other practitioners, we share an immediate human bond transcending the practice itself that expands our optionality by significant orders of magnitude.

Wherever we may roam … Coast/Cycles in Singapore

November 21, 2014 by Eric in Adventure Gear, Cities, Creators | No Comments

As our conversation meanders, we talk about travel, our website, and about our life path of leaving Seattle at the beginning of the year to travel until we find a place that we might feel at home in. We share our travel card and website with Jansen which strikes a congenial chord. One thing leads to another and he says, “You guys are incredibly brave. I love your story and would love for you to take a pair of bikes out to explore the city while you’re in town!”

Luang Prabang

May 7, 2014 by Eric in Anthropology, Cities, Wrap-up | 7 Comments

Arriving in a new city has been a consistently bittersweet experience for us. Each has its own unique feel, from the exuberance we’ve felt reaching a destination we’ve read great things about to the delirious emotional void while simply trying find a halfway comfortable horizontal surface to flump upon. Luang Prabang was fertile ground to germinate our appreciation of Laos at the conclusion of our four day motorbike journey.

Hanoi to Luang Prabang Motorbike Trip

April 30, 2014 by Eric in Wrap-up | 16 Comments

In early January, our hosts in Hanoi, Marc and Hien, put out the rallying cry for hearty adventures to join them on their final motorbike trek before emigrating from Vietnam. Excited by the idea of embarking on the journey through rural and mountainous northern Vietnam with a group of experienced folks, Dina and I nearly immediately said, why not!?

Looking for a little guidance?

March 18, 2014 by Eric in Anthropology | 2 Comments

Stonehenge and other vestiges of human thought arouse our curiosity but carry no message for our guidance. To convey our ideas across time to other human beings we want to erect a monument… a cluster of graven stones… which will silently display our ideas when we have gone. We hope they will merit increasing acceptance and that through their silent persistence they will hasten in a small degree the coming Age of Reason.

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