http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Hiker-Jules/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Hiker Jules en-us Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:30:30 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:30:30 +0000 Hello everyone. I am finding it quite difficult to get internet access on the trail where I can upload photos. I have decided that I am going to just update on Facebook to save me time. I have upload at least 80 pictures there so far plus I update my status whenver I can. I may even see how I can add notes so I can even do a sort of blog on there.If you would like to see the pictures and upd http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Castile---Leon/Burgos/blog-435208.html Ok ... I will confess ... I am both excited and scared concerning the trip I am about to embark on. I am excited to be travelling to Spain and Portugal places I have never been. I am excited to be walking the Camino de Santiago through the beautiful countryside of Spain and experiencing the culture and attempting the little Spanish I learned the last few weeks. I am excited to meet new peopl http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/London/blog-429855.html ldquoThis kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetimerdquo Clint Eastwood in the movie ldquoBridges of Madison CountyrdquoWell hellip I made it to Madison County on May 28th to the setting of one of my favourite movies Bridges of Madison County. I stayed in Winterset a small town which was actually the town it was set in. The thing this little town was famous for before the fi http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-405038.html Only one thing makes a dream impossible the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho The AlchemistI am on the road again hellip this time only for a few weeks. After settling for 5 weeks at my brotherrsquos place in Calgary to take the CELTA course it is now time to head off again and make my way back to Ontario. The course took a lot out of me physically and mentally. I survived but my bod http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/South-Dakota/Sioux-Falls/blog-402907.html ldquoGo placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others even the dull and ignorant they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others you may bec http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Calgary/blog-390720.html ldquoThe glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.rdquo Ralph Waldo EmersonI left Tofino British Columbia by 8am on Thursday April 9th caught the Ferry and arrived in Whistler around 5pm. I made sever http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Whistler/blog-390434.html ldquoThough we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.rdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson The ferry to Vancouver Island was much larger than I imagined. The ferries I had taken in the US on the East coast were much smaller. This one had a coffee and gift shop onboard and 5 decks for cars. The ride was about an hour and half and I just sat and http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Tofino/blog-388868.html You gotta hold your head up high and watch all the negative go by.Donrsquot ever be ashamed to cry you go aheadCause lifersquos like a jump rope. Up Down Up Down Up Down Up Down Yeah hellip It will get hard remember lifersquos like a jump rope.I want to tell you that everything will be okay. That everything will eventually turn itself to gold.So keep pushing through it all.Donr http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-387487.html ldquoLessons always arrive when you are ready for them and if you can read the signs you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.rdquo The Zahir Paulo CoelhoThe drive from Point Reyes just outside San Francisco to Seattle was long. I took highway 1 while in California and I must say that although the scenery was beautiful by the end I had enough of the w http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-385992.html ldquoTrue love is when you feel whole when you love yourself. Life is nothing without love.rdquo Written on the sidewalk in San Francisco see the picture in the blog.I had heard so much about San Francisco prior to arriving so my expectations were quite high. I am glad to say that I was not disappointed. It is a beautiful city. In fact I think it may even be too beautiful and too perf http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-383850.html ldquoThis is the art of liferdquo he said dreamily. ldquoYou may yourself as an artist develop the game of your life and lend it animation. You may complicate and enrich it as you please. It lies in your hands.rdquo Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse These last few days I have been making my way up the Pacific Coast Highway. Along the way I visited Hearst Castle for you Dad and it http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Half-Moon-Bay/blog-382432.html ldquoIn everyonersquos life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.rdquo Albert Schweitzer After the train leaves Flagstaff I get in my car and sit for what seemed like hours but it was only minutes. It was time to get going. I tuned my IP http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-381939.html ldquoThe challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.rdquo The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho After dropping Kari off at the airport I went to the hostel. After I checked in Jorg and I sat outside enjoying the evening and catching up on the stories of what we had both been doing. The hoste http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Flagstaff/blog-379765.html ldquoThe Greatest EARTH on SHOW.rdquo Displayed on the city sign of Kalab Utah. Utah is definitely high up on the list as being the ldquoGreatest Earth on Showrdquo hellip but I am jumping ahead of myself. First hellip letrsquos get back to Las Vegas. It is Feb 12th and I am meeting Kari and her friends at the airport for 4 exciting nights in Las Vegas staying at the MGM Gran http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-379757.html ldquoSunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.rdquo John Ruskin It is January 30th and I have arrived in Santa Fe. I had decided to skip Albuquerque so that I could be settled in one place for a few days. I knew that after these few days I would be sharing my t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Sedona/blog-379750.html ldquoDecisions are only the beginning of something. When someone makes a decision he is in fact plunging into a powerful current that carries him to a place he had never even dreamed of when he made that initial decision.rdquo The Alchemist Paulo CoelhoIt is January 26th and I am sitting hoisted up in my car while they change my oil and I am trying to decide whether to continue going wes http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/El-Paso/blog-379737.html ldquoFriendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.rdquo Woodrow WilsonIt is now Jan 13th and Jorg and I are crossing over the Texas border. Jorg has decided that he is going to get out of the car at the sea and journey on from there. I dropped him off just before we hit the water at the Galveston coastline and I continued on to Galveston. When I rounded the corner http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/San-Antonio/blog-372403.html ldquoThe secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting in the first one.rdquo Mark TwainI will start with saying that I am sorry for being so late with this travel blog entry. I guess the good side of that is that I am busy having a good time rather than writing travel blog http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Louisiana/New-Orleans/blog-372172.html ldquoEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement. Lifersquos most persistent and urgent question is What are you doing for othersrdquo Martin Luther King Jr.It was tough to leave the sunny south but it was time to continue on my journey. I would be heading north for only a short time. M http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Memphis/blog-361288.html ldquoWhen the heart of you heart opens you can take deep pleasure in the company of the people around you hellip When you are open to the beauty mystery and grandeur of ordinary existence you ldquoget itrdquo that it always has been beautiful mysterious and grand and always will be.rdquo Timothy Ray MillarI arrived in Key West on December 20th in the mid afternoon. I checked into http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Keys/Key-West/blog-360079.html