A prudent Life-Tip: The time to assess the relative ease or difficulty of any trek or task is after one has completed the same … 🙂 As joyous as I felt at finally attaining the summit of my day’s jaunt (having limped all the way up to the very crest of the Jura mountains in […]
Well, it took me quite a while to sloooooowly navigate the shockingly steep descent mentioned previously, and no sooner had I done so than I discovered that said trail was not meant for pilgrims at all — that I had actually taken the wrong route off the mountain; a route that took MUCH longer to […]
“We tend to focus on our differences & disagreements, and yet all too easily forget that we all gaze upon the same flowers gloriously blooming into each new Spring. Indeed, not far beneath what appears to separate us from one another are comparable dreams of justice & harmony, snugly alongside the innumerable opportunities we all […]
My shin splint is still aching quite a bit this morning, so I downshift to a verrrrrry slow (and thus verrrry smooth) shuffle-amble tempo that I started to call my “monk gear” … 🙂 I walk for more than a few kilometers along a lovely riverside pathway thereafter and realize while doing so that it […]
“Tread the world softly; being both gentle & kind. Regardless of happening or circumstance, remember to be thankful for the time you have been given on this beautiful Earth — and above all let your actions for others repeatedly reflect that same gratitude; as humble as it is heartfelt.” ~ inspired by Chris Leach (a […]
Once again the Swiss waymarkers completely disappeared at this point in my journey, and I was at that point gently reminded by a hawk gracefully soaring overhead to gaze upon The Road not as a precise trail to be ever-found & exactly followed, but rather as a general direction in which to flowingly & fluidly […]
I was pretty beat by the time I reached the town of Tavannes, and yet even though the locals I met there were exceptionally friendly, the town itself was neither very warm nor very welcoming, so I decided to flow roughly 5km onward to the village of Sanceboz — passing through the Roman forged tunnel […]
Finding the proper path out of Sanceboz was a bit tricky this very cold pre-dawn morning, and yet find it I eventually did, and things flowed quite smoothly for the first hour or so thereafter. Of course, I was walking through Camino-novitiate Switzerland, so it was only a matter of a very short time before […]
“Sometimes, when you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river passing slowly by beneath you, you suddenly come to understand everything of importance there is to be known — that in life, as in LOVE, there is no hurry; that we are truly & quite literally all […]
Even though my shinsplint was still aching mightily this day, the walk itself was a smooth one nonetheless, and I soon found myself heading down and into and through the breathtakingly beautiful Taubenlochschlucht (literally: Dove Hole Canyon) and then onward into the outskirts of the city of Biel. “We must have the courage to let […]
Flow into the shockingly large city of Biel and get some great directions in English (even though I had already been pleasantly surprised to find that Biel was an essentially German-speaking city) to the nearest Catholic church, where I intended to enter and rest my weary legs & soothe my sore feet. I stop by […]
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