Dai Tong Lam is a Buddhist monastery way up north of Montreal. Every summer there’s a bunch people coming up there visiting, enjoying the free air. Some people like to live off-shore Montreal to be away of the city, but unless you’ve been to a place like Dai Tong Lam, you have no idea what fresh air is.

It’s a really fun drive up there and pretty much like a video game, except that staying on the road is a very good idea.

People all over Canada and USA come there to visit and have a good time. The place rents about 60 yellow school buses every year and drives people up there. Add the people driving in their own cars and you can get a number close to 10 000 people. In addition, there’s free food, good air and nice walk all over the place. If you need meat to survive, you should pack up your own meal, Buddhism doesn’t serve meat. Free food for 10 000 people. That’s something.

Kids, teenagers, adults, everybody can go there. Everything up there was built by the monks that live there. To me, there’s a personal reason to be there, because that’s where my grand mother’s ashes are kept and the whole family goes to pay our respects.

Yesterday, we were blessed with a beautiful sun and a cozy temperature adding up to a wonderful weather. Look at all that extremely well cut grass and the surace is really big. That’s some damn good work.