http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Danidani/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Danidani en-us Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:23:45 +0000 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:23:45 +0000 Germany Leipzig917 921 So Pavel drove us from Cheb Czech Republic to Leipzig Germany where our wonderful friends Andreas and Julie live with their new angel baby Tara. Julie and Tara were home when we arrived and welcomed us with SO much love. We hadnrsquot seen Julie since Earth Dance in California last year and now we had come to her house in Germany And Tara with her unbelievably http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Saxony/Leipzig/blog-449237.html Czech Republic Paint Day and Beyond98 917 CR start 91The last blog left off after the Day of Silence and before the Day of Paint. So one night while we were all hanging out the boys told us how they had been planning on painting the kitchen for a long time. At the moment it was just a pale yellow color with fun drawings the boys had made here and there. But they wanted a full make over fo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Karlovy-Vary-Region/Karlovy-Vary/blog-442566.html Czech Republic Pre Paint Day91 98 Total until 917The last blog left off with Phoenix and I surviving a severely horrible and pukey 8 hour boat ride from Bornholm Denmark to Sassnitz Germany. And of course as miserable as the trip was we are so grateful to have had that experience and adventurehellipand even more grateful that itrsquos overSo after the boat ride we ended up in Sassni http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Karlovy-Vary-Region/Cheb/blog-441940.html Bornholm Denmark823 831Sunday the 23rd we arrived in Bornholm by a huge luxurious ferry. The ride from Sweden was only about an hour and then we were met at the front of the harbor by Freja 19 yrs and Nena 17 yrs our next wonderful couchsurfing hosts. They live in an incredible old Danish house with Frejarsquos mother Ilse. Nena is actually an exchange student from Venezuela so a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Bornholm/blog-436479.html Denmark pre Bornholm817 822So we got our ride into the Center of Odense by Siva who gave us each 200 kroner and then went to the Library to try and find a place to stay. It didnrsquot take long at all actually. After only about 30 minutes of looking on CouchSurfing.com we got a response that we could stay at this wonderful chick Piarsquos house. She lived about 4.4 kilometers about 2 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Syddanmark/Odense/blog-431293.html The Netherlands811 816Tuesday morning the 11th of August Willrsquos grandfather drove us from Honiton to Exeter the near by city. We had purchased a bus ticket from there to London for only 20 pounds and then another bus ticket from London to Amsterdam for only 38 pounds for both our tickets. We couldnrsquot believe how cheap it was for the bus when everything else was in the hundre http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/Province-of-Utrecht/Utrecht/blog-431107.html Devon England87 810So we arrived in Devon at about 2am on Friday the 7th. Willrsquos Mum was still waiting up with a Pizza ready to go into the oven. She is ABSOLUTELY incredibly sweet turned her dining room into a little room for us with two little blow up mattresses and matching linens. She also had a pile of maps and phrase books set aside for us. I donrsquot believe we went to sleep http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Devon/Exeter/blog-429187.html 85 86We arrived in London on Wed the 5th at 700am England time which is 5am Eastern US. For some reason we didnrsquot force ourselves to sleep on the plane but instead watched two movies and napped for about 20 mins. We heard someone in Dulles say that she was going to stay up so that it would be easier for her internal clock to reset. But I think the most important part of the equation http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/London-City/blog-427337.html We left the Rainbow Gathering in New Mexico on July 6th and headed back to California until our flight out to the East Coast Hopefully I'll have a blog about the Gathering sometime soon. Our first stop in California was back in Fresno to unpack say bye to some of Phoenix' family and friends and then of course repack. The first two nights back in Babylon our beautiful Rainbow crew Sherie http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Santa-Cruz/blog-422707.html Easter Sunday held an evening ride from Santa Cruz to Fresno not to necessarily visit family and the Easter Bunny though I did have an Easter Dinner and beautiful family waiting for me but to embark on a couple day adventure with two wonderful ladies...well four if you count our furry companions. After Sherie and I arrived in Fresno and were greeted by Phoenix and her wonderful homecooked Ea http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Yosemite-National-Park/Yosemite-Valley/blog-399057.html It worked out rather conveniently that we scheduled to visit my family in Virginia at the same time as the Inauguration History in the making and we got to experience it...in all it's cold frigid freezing glory. We're not too used to the cold weather and certainly not being in it for 24 hours straightSo like I said my family lives in Virginia and we flew in on the 13th. Pretty much we've http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/District-of-Columbia/Washington/blog-365833.html This past Sunday we both had off of work in time to head out on a small road trip to do some hiking. We didn't know at first that it would turn into a hiking adventure and we especially didn't know it would turn into such a mental and physical excursion We just had a general idea that we wanted to go hang around some nature and trees and that we have heard so much about Big Sur. So Sunday after http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Big-Sur/blog-351297.html This week held a brief but intense trip up to San Ramon to visit Amma the Hugging Saint. We caught wind of her being in the area through our Costa Rica contact who is a volunteer at the Ashram that Amma goes to when she visits the area. We planned on waking up early Monday morning and driving the hour and a half to the Ashram. It was perfect timing really we missed the morning commuter traffic http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/blog-349457.html The past week and a half has been full of adventure beauty manifestation and travel. The original plan was to stay in Arcata for the week to spend time with friends as well as to make some money at least enough to make up for the precious days taken off of work in Santa Cruz. But as is consistent with my life right now the Universe had much more exciting and enlightening plans for me After http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Ashland/blog-346357.html Last weekend we had an adventure to Laytonville California to go to Earth Dance. Earth Dance is a big festival that basically plays music for three days straight. You camp out next to your car and then walk into the woods for the festival. We staked out a spot and had about 5 tents in a little village with a canopy that was pretty essential it was really hot during the days. There's some good R http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Mendocino/blog-325003.html The other day when I was at work and I suddenly had the urge to go camping. I haven't been since Rainbow and it struck me pretty strong. So I delivered whatever drinks I had in my hand and set out to find Phoenix who also works there to tell her. I only had to walk a few steps which was perfect and told her I want to go. She immediately said YES Lets go tomorrow which was the absolute best http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Santa-Cruz/blog-324993.html Spontaneity is the key to that feeling of freedom me thinksThis past Sunday the lady Phoenix and I decided to road trip with our friends Annette and Azza back to Arcata increasing our magical time spent with them aphond also avoiding a long hitchhike back for them which I'm sure they would have loved honestly. So from Santa Cruz to Arcata we went. We took Highway 1 all the way up which o http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Arcata/blog-311920.html To finish out the amazing summer I had this year Michelle her mom and I continued on after Rainbow. The morning of July 5th as I left off in the last blog we three headed out of the woods. Our first stop was to a hotel where Shel and I showered up for the first time in over a week Oh my was it wonderful to be clearn and shaven again. Then we charged our cell phones and caught up on voice mai http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Jose/blog-100501.html Continued from the previous three postsOK Irsquom back with the hopefully last rainbow installment It sure is motivating to write these when people kept beggin for it Specially Daisy cuz shersquos so uber cute and I know she is for REAL comin to Rainbow next yearOh and to all of you who say you want tohellipDO IT Why not just do it Irsquoll keep you all updated as to where it is http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Colorado/Steamboat-Springs/blog-100366.html Continued from the first entry about RainbowPeople Chris yup chris my now former fiance and best friend. Michelle My girlie Also referred to as M or Shel in my writings. Boobacita M's Mom Totally bad ass chickita Pavel Chris' and My's good friend from the Czech Republic. He's also a roommate of ours and a good one at that Chung He's the buff Korean dude in http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Colorado/Steamboat-Springs/blog-100293.html