http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/cam2yogi/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from cam2yogi en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 10:24:46 BST Fri, 16 May 2008 10:24:46 BST Traveling is a choice and it is a choice to make traveling sacred. Travel can be more than an eyeopening experience into a new culture of relics ruins history and tradition. It can be more than a destinationoriented expedition from Point A to Point B. The way of the traveler can transform into a heartopening pilgrimage. From this point onward we choose to travel as a force of inner disc http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-262522.html Finding yourself in solitude. Everybody hears this time and time again. From the fruition of youth when sent on ldquotimeoutrdquo to the isolation every individual needs in order to hibernate with onersquos emotions. Even through days of work locking the mind and body behind concealed doors in order to cram a semesterrsquos final paper or spurn a creative project. Isolation solitude http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-259765.html Yoga is the art of release. It is the study of onersquos concentration upon the diverse layers of the body exploring deeper with an advanced focus into the mind until eventually delving and settling forever within the spirit. This ancient tradition of breath movement and meditation developed within the Hindu culture of the Indian subcontinent becomes the practitionerrsquos sacred ritual. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-250416.html A day of love. A day dedicated to that special someone who makes your body whimper your mind rest at ease and your heart flutter with freedom. It is a day for love.All we need is love and here comes February 14th Valentinersquos Day. And of course love is the last thing on peoplersquos mind. This might sound crazy but take a second to stop and look at the world at large. Look not only at http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-246694.html The Roadrsquos ConsistencyHome and settled now travel boundmdashit is a constant push and pull between the nature of yin and yang. A traveler is a traveler for life and to be home is equally a journey as it is while on the road but therersquos a vast difference a change in perspective. And itrsquos from this new perspective the traveler takes to the road yet again. Last week I spent http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-245309.html Ah yes the holiday season. It arrives with festivities and it departs with greater festivities. Goodbyehellip and please do not return until next yearhellip if you must.Christmas has always been about family yet in the same context Christmas has been about the spirit of givingmdashin many different ways. When I say giving I am referring to a scale of giving from honest care to itsrs http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Pasadena/blog-231373.html Hunger is a necessary experience of travel and life I suppose and when on a budget there is very little fear of hunger. It is commonplace in a strange land on a strange form of transportation that might last for days and often it is satisfied only sparingly when on that wellknown budget. But the local markets do provide wonderfully as with the vendors along the streets and the friendly http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Bainbridge-Island/blog-203766.html ...continuedCahors would be the last time I would ever see The Way. As I sat as I wandered through the small picturesque town situated on a bend upon the Lot Rivermdashas I felt my body and listened deeper to a purpose gone unknownmdashI came to understand much about Le Chemin de Saint Jacques de Compostelle. The Way presented itself with all I had dreamt of it was rough it was a challeng http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Bainbridge-Island/blog-197711.html ...continuedShortly after nine in the morning on August 9th 2007 I took my first steps on Le Chemin de Saint Jacques de Compostelle. I was on The Way and up and out of LePuyenVelay the hills climbed. They took me onto a plateau and instantly I was in the French countryside. Here clouds came closer to the earth and fields rolled along with their grains of harvest. Cylindrical bails of hay http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Centre/blog-196563.html The trail winds like the southern mistral. It twists and turns left and right and ascends and descends as if a direct route to the heavens. In some ways it is. In some ways this pilgrimage is a test for all those travelers in Life. It is The Way and I have become another pilgrim of an ancient tradition in the catholic faith. Welcome to Le Chemin de Saint Jacques de Compostelle. This is T http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Centre/blog-195005.html Slowly the landscape changed. From the English countrysidemdasha run of wild horses and the dance of the summerrsquos breezemdasheverything around us transformed. The smells went from farmland to diesel and rubbish. The sounds went from the fresh streams of air to the movement of a city. But tastes became sweeter. Along the way berries and plums became full in their ripeness and apples http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-194154.html Over the hills and far away the Yorkshire Dales National Park unfolded before us. Slowly Footprints for Peace headed east from Sellafield. Upon the fells of the Lake District down to the fields and across an Area of Outstanding Beauty we waded the waters. In our shoes pools formed sufficiently pruning our feet. The blisters swelled and the afternoonrsquos sandwiches became soggy. Day i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Nottinghamshire/Nottingham/blog-189309.html This article has been republished due to system failure.Saturday July 21stMilton Keynes came into our sights this day. We stretched our legs after seventy days of walking having first moved north out of Dublin walking up to Belfast then riding east into Scotland. Starting from Faslane Trident Submarine Base just out of Glasgow our United Kingdom exploration began. The footpaths and roads gu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Oxfordshire/blog-186393.html The article had to be republished due to Travelblog.org system failure.To our great misfortune our fears were realized. As we treaded down the west coast of England along the Cumbrian Coastal Way our destination had been Sellafield. We came upon its saturnine towers of concrete and metal. We stood vigil outside its aluminum blocks of industry where stores of highly radioactive waste were kept http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Cumbria/blog-177904.html Sorry folks here's another republished article.Wersquore moving through The Glen. Ferns carpet the soils sprouting from the beds of moss where thick shadows linger throughout the whole of the day. There is silence between the chattering of birds and my eyes wander among the tree trunks. I see Merlin peering from behind a bough. He wears a tall speckled hat. His eyes are sallow and white fol http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/blog-170681.html Due to the site's crash I've had to republish ten of my articles. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thank you.A good cell Irsquod say. 10 foot by 12 foot with high walls. Colors are cream. A red floor of cement lays beneath. Most of the paintchips and stains are scattered here my bare feet careful for leftover remnants. Yet with each step the surface is coolmdashrefreshing. There is a blue p http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Scotland/Glasgow/blog-167464.html Due to Travelblog's system failure this article had to be republished. Apologies apologies... and Hi from LondonBlind HistoryIrelandrsquos warm apple pie with a dollop of fresh cream was Belfast. I went into the city ignorant. I couldnrsquot recall any knowledge any history or awareness except snippets of conflict and violence. Nothing in my textbook days could inform me of the current is http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-164559.html Due to Travelblog's system failure... yes... I said it before I lost ten articles. So I'm republishing them and I'm sorry for filling your mailbox. If you haven't read them here they are again and enjoy. Sorry for the inconvenience my friends.Footprints Our PathEightysix daysmdashslowly the days pass ticking down as we cross the map with our footprints. Each town and city turns into http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/blog-161819.html Due to Travelblog.org's site crash the memory of this blog was lost and had to be republished. Apologies for the missing material and all articles will be up in timeDay Onersquos Nuclear ResolutionAnother Sunday another citymdashthe highlife of Dublin deep in the Temple Bar district of an old citymdashand another Irish spring day south within the Republic of Ireland. A layer of clouds http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Dublin/blog-159666.html Due to Travelblog's system failure ten articles were lost and will be republished. Sorry for the filling of your mailbox... but... drink your urine Praise be to the body and its' gloryA chilly winter day called us out two friends coming together on another adventure. Yes we laughed. We laughed wondering what the hell we were doing at five in the morning driving for the coast.With surfboard http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Bainbridge-Island/blog-154013.html