Castawaykuopus: Company from Kuala Lumpur... visting us in WA

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Company from Kuala Lumpur... visting us in WA

Our friend Kendra is visiting us during Christmas Break from her teaching assignment in Kuala Lumpur. She'll fly to Melbourne with us on Dec. 29th. for our next adventure to a different part of Australia. Right now, we are staying in a small beach town about 300km from Joondalup, near the Margaret River wine area. We're going on a Bushtracker Wine tour today and will spend another night here in Busselton, WA. We rented a car and drove down. We head back north on Christmas eve day. The pictures are from our stop in Freo (Fremantle) where we had lunch at our favorite seafood restaurant and enjoyed a few hours experiencing the quaintness of this nice port city.

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BarbDecember 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Hi Mar and Bob, Glad Kendra arrived safely. Enjoy your tour!
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For the Traveler
Every time you leave home,
Another road takes you
Into a world you were never in.

New strangers on other paths await.
New places that have never seen you
Will startle a little at your entry.
Old places that know you well
Will pretend nothing
Changed since your last visit.

When you travel, you find yourself
Alone in a different way,
More attentive now
To the self you bring along,
Your more subtle eye watching
You abroad; and how what meets you
Touches that part of the heart
That lies low at home:

How you unexpectedly attune
To the timbre in some voice,
Opening in conversation
You want to take in
To where your longing
Has pressed hard enough
Inward, on some unsaid dark,
To create a crystal of insight
You could not have known
You needed
To illuminate
Your way.

When you travel,
A new silence
Goes with you,
And if you listen,
You will hear
What your heart would
Love to say.

A journey can become a sacred thing:
Make sure, before you go,
To take the time
To bless your going forth,
To free your heart of ballast
So that the compass of your soul
Might direct you toward
The territories of spirit
Where you will discover
More of your hidden life,
And the urgencies
That deserve to claim you.

May you travel in an awakened way,
Gathered wisely into your inner ground;
That you may not waste the invitations
Which wait along the way to transform you.

May you travel safely, arrive refreshed,
And live your time away to its fullest;
Return home more enriched, and free
To balance the gift of days which call you.

~ John O'Donohue ~

Adventure...

Adventure is a path. Real adventure --- self-determined, self-motivated, often risky --- forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.
-Mark Jenkins

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Company from Kuala Lumpur... visting us in WA

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