Hi guys -- I'm back and the trip was mad scathing fun! Highlights:
Mykonos -- Warm, golden light, delicious food, busy town, turquois water. Also visited island of Delos -- amazing ruins still being excavated dating from 800 B.C.
Athens -- Awe-inspiring Acropolis -- Parthenon, stadiums, temples. Very crowded city -- mostly cubist modern buildings co-exiting with ancient ruins.
Cruised thru strait of Ithaca...mountainous, gorgeous, I understand Odysseus better now! Boat is spec-freakin-tacular. Love this beachy, yet academic, trip!
Croatia -- Split = Pretty port city! Did a historical tour, and shopped my brains out.
Venice -- I love this city! St Mark's Basilica, water everywhere, architecture is so elaborate -- Byzantine/Gothic blend. People are awesome. Was here for a Venetian festival celebrating the building of the Church of Redemption in the 1500's after black plague was subsiding. Saw fireworks and lots of Italians dancing in the streets. Mad dance skills!
I ate a lot of good food for the whole trip. I still dream about that... :-)
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Journey Infinite -- Intellectual musings (and some - not so much), satire, insights, analysis, current events, and a sweet hangman game. I'm also @ myspace.com/journeyinfinite and under my name on Facebook :-D
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- journeyinfinite
- Lots of neat quirks, highly imaginative, a total daydreamer, happy, healthy, with a side order of the goofy streak. Finds interesting, new ideas and things to work on/play with/learn about all the time...and I kinda want to travel the world to see it all! The universe knows what it's doing!
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It is not so remarkable that our greatest joy should come when we are motivated by concern for others. We find that not only do altruistic actions bring about happiness but they also lessen our experience of suffering...the sufferings which undermine our internal peace -- anxiety, doubt, disappointment.
Since our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness. --Ethics for a New Millennium, by the 14th Dalai
Since our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness. --Ethics for a New Millennium, by the 14th Dalai
3 comments:
Welcome back. The trip sounds like everything went well. Let's get some italian food soon, and bring the pictures!!!!!
Yay! You're back.... Don't forget about that Greek restaurant in Plano, that's a good one too. I also insist on seeing the pics!!
Yum...let's go to both of those :-D I have pics on Snapfish (I'll email link) and some on MySpace. I am going to print some out soon, too.
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