J - Yo, Peace Rider where you been for so long, missed hearing from you. What took you so long to get back on your bicycle - dude?
PR - It's a long story. But I'm back, tilting at windmills perhaps but peace on earth and peace with the earth is possible. I ride with hope and a sore back side, something you might understand.
J - Now you're talking my language. You do like to abuse your body. You have a destination in mind? You beat your head against a wall in DC the last two times with climate change.. Going for a third!
PR - No, of course not, it wasn't the destination that was important in any event but the journey and friends made along the way. It really is about conscious raising following your dreams, inspiring others letting it all hang out. As Einstein famously said, to paraphrase crudely, you can't solve current problems at the same level of consciousness. The good news is that's changing and I'm meeting more folks who are moving in that direction. it's change, evolution, a revolution of a different sort.
J - Back to your question of destination. For the moment it's Colorado and Mexico also beckons for the 12/21/12 Maya calendar cycle end date.
PR - I'm recovering at Entrance Ranch, just north of Hinton, AB check it out on the web. I met Rocky Notnes on my first ride through here in the winter of '09. His vision is to create a healing/retreat center here, more than just a place to stay with trail rides. Tell your rich friends about it. He could use some of your pocket change.
J - Yeah right, and me with barely a pot to - -.
PR - All right forget it.
J - So you started in Grand Prairie?
PR - Yeah, my friends John Brucker, daughter Wendy and Vi Anderson dropped me off just south of town and out of heavy traffic. John and Vi continued on to Calgary so John could catch a flight to Germany to visit his brothers. Vi was going to see her daughter in Vernon.
J - You made pretty good time for an old f--- if it took only three and a half days. You're pushing yourself hard amigo.
PR - Maybe so, it felt like it when I rolled into the Ranch late on Monday. Fewer ups and downs and less walking up hills the last day but more miles over a little flatter terrain. The physical demands and fatigue are just part of being on a bicycle. But there are moments that make it worthwhile, the onset of fall colors splashed on the hillsides, an elk bugling behind camp one frosty morning, a lone wolf crossing up ahead, and the warmth of a camp fire on cold fingers.
Then my arrival at Entrance Ranch late in the day was really sweet. Mario greeted me coming down the steps of the main house. He's taking a Oneness mural (8'x12') on the road across Canada to the United Nation. www.unfoldingdreams.org. The latter site has a graphic of it. Then I met shaved head Thekla, Reiki master, a self described roamer, servant to the world who arrived here again the day before to help Rocky.
She's the only person who's ever offered to draw a bath for me then have dinner waiting. Sinking weary bones into a hot tub and then food was about as close to bliss as you can get..
J - Where to next?
PR - West to Jasper then over the Icefield Parkway, weather permitting. But first a visit with Kim Wallace and Dave, friends the '09 trip.
J - That route through the Rockies is supposed to be one of the most scenic - right?
PR - That's what I've been hearing and fall colors in the park are nearing their peak. My friend Don Laird from Edson and I drove in to Meiji Hot Springs in the Park and had a great soak anc conversation. Pretty sweet, yes?
More down the road, held in the arms of the moon and the bosom of the Earth.
Yeah, when the student is ready a teacher comes. She has enhanced my appreciation and interested in energy healing and its application.
What's the next stop.
Probably leave here Friday and head for Jasper and connect with Kim Wallace again (met on '09 ride). But for tonight it's soak in a Hot Springs near Jasper with friend Don Laird with some fine dining thrown in.
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