I was so anxious the night before departure but every thing went just fine as I did the next right thing. Loading the motorcycle wasn’t an issue. I was moving through molasses remembering past challenges and praying through out. Then when I was on the highway and heading west again I was ecstatic. I was at the apogee of my jouirney and heading home.
It is good to be back here. Yesterday it took only 45 minutes to have my home all set up. It had only taken that long to take down the home. I remember when I planned to pull anchor sailing the SV Giri, I wanted to be able to ready to go at a half hours notice. Here I am moving in that direction with my ‘land barge’. I remember thinking how much better it would be to drive down the coast at a 100 km/hr rather than sailing at my maximum speed of 5 to 7 km /hr under power. What I didn’t consider was the traffic. On the ocean once I was out of harbour I put on the autopilot and there was very little traffic. I had a ship detector and had to on watch but even at night it was not nearly as exciting as it is on the 10 lane freeways around LA.
I liked the highway 8 headed to San Diego from Yuma. I turned north at 111. I loved the views. The Thor front window is magnificent. I might like the endless sky and barking with hills in the background because it reminds me of the prairies heading to Alberta and the Rockies.
I’m parked in 17 one slip over from 19 where I was before. Yesterday I walked the dog to the park and he met another dog. I also had to soaks and ate fried chicken I’d picked up on the journey when I stopped in Calipatria looking for eye vitamins. I’m down on the official kind though I have a bottle of almost like eye vitamins from the Vitamin Store. I believe they are maintaining my aging sight. I like the new glasses I have from Sol optical in Aldegones. 2 hours of driving was all round doable. I did 5 to 6 hours driving each day and plan to head back doing 3 to 4 as that’s not so tiring. I still have to decide whether to take the I-5 through the Sissyou Pass for which I need to have chains. Or i could head over to the coast where the weather is better and the views are great. I just don’t know the RV parks. Peter was so kind to give me the list of ones he and Larry use with their Tiffany. That was a god send on the way down.
My awning isn’t extending so I wish I had travelhome or Kelvin here to fix that. I checked the fuse and it wasn’t obviously so I stopped as right now the awning is in and I don’t need it.If I were to get it to go out it could be I’d not be able to get it back in. There’s a motor and a wire that needs to be checked. That was the joy of known Kelvin of Travco. He was really good at diagnositics and fixing things like this. I’ve been very fortunate on this trip with RV repairs services so have to remember it’s not like I’m in the extreme backwoods off road hunting with my camper or the Rv’s before that. There’s help and I really am thankful for that.
I meant to mention God. I had my meeting on line this morning and we talk about spiritual connection and a higher power. Kirk shard on facebook te bliss he experiences meditating. Wendy shared how she was able to attend a family funereal calmer thanks to her prayer and meditation. I have a friend Reg who turned 75 and I remembered Willy inviting me for dinner on my 50’s birthday. I’ve had so many family and closest friends die. Now a friend on face book is recording his end stage cancer from palliative care. Like my brother Ron he wanted so much to spend as much time as possible home with his little dog. An emergency has him back in hospital again and hopefully he’ll get over this glitch and get more time at home. I shared with him that he’d brought to mind ‘do not go gentle into that still’ night. I also thought of Leonard Cohen’s, As I lay dead, an angel came’.
I’m comfortable with life as a stage on the journey. I’m enjoying reading Dan Brown’s latest book discussing identity as in the ‘cloud’ so to speak. The body is the repeater site. I look forward to the love of seeing might family and friends again. I dream of this conference in a place like Santorini. That’s my Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven. I liked the Moody work on the NDE and the seeing the light.
I’m pretty happy here. I will be driving the Vespa with Madigan over to Salton Sea beach for him to run. The town of Bombay Beach seemed like my mind with the new growth, the old shattered mind , the stress of divorce and drugs and death of work.
Today I’m trying to let go. I want to know God and know God’s will for me but my ego, that limited sense of self pulls me down into fear and selfishness.
I had so much fear leaving Sleepy Hollow and once I was o the road it was heaven again. I remember when I was on pilgrimage to Israel there was unrest with people being shot. The pope had recommended everyone go but because of the crisis that didn’t stop me going, the Church of Nativity was almost empty and I was able to enter the Grotto with a few other I’d sund a hymn with. Now I was discussing sexuality with a friend saying that I recommended ‘Why can’t I buy a Canadian’ from a course i gave for years in which I handed that out. Willie Gutowsky told me that JEsus said ‘do not be afraid’. Or ‘fear not’ some 70 times . I’m working on being ‘grateful’ I can’t nip all fear but don’t need to dwell on it. I’ve had a lot of life and negative experiences I dwelt on. My job today is to focus on the positive. I’m truly blessed and despite being in car crashes and plan crasshes and surviving various sickness I’m here today.
This really is paradise. I’ve this great little mutt with me. My motorhome which I share with the bank is paradise. It’s all I need and very elegant. There’s so much more room if I were to just sort and clean. So much stufff I just brought over from the Fuzion RV and I don’t really need it.
Thank you God for all these blessings. I don’t know if God is reality or a loving reality. I really suspect there’s’ pre destiny and I maybe wrote the script to learn love over fear. It’s a good life serving and healing and now older I can contemplate God. I’m ’supported to be’ finishing a book on addiction and spirituality. I have these books in progress and right now rather than write in that genre I’m blogging and journalling which is what I enjoy. I’m having God on my mind. It was here I road the VEspa to Salvation Mountain and contemplated the prayer Jesus. I am a sinner, please come upon my body and into my heart.
I’m looking forward to going to the Bombay Beach Church tomorrow with Pastor Jack. He’s preaching on the Gospel of John and I began reading that again on this journey.
Then John gave this testimony (about Jesus) “ I saw the Spiirt come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. And I myself did not Know him, but one who sent me to baptize with water told me, “The man on how you see the Spirit come down and remains is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit. I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One.”
Jesus Christ is God’s Chosen One. I suspect that means the ‘messiah’ too. ‘Christ’.
Thank you Jesus for this day. Thank you for Love and Life. Holy Spirit come.
