Spent the morning in Pula … To be honest, I didn’t really plan this trip too much, so my mode has been to start Googling in the morning … “What to do in Pula?” … Hmmm. Ancient coliseum? Should probably do that. My car was parked for free from the night before, so dropped off […]
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This was a long and full day. Woke up TOOO early at the hostel in Plitzvicka … Mostly because of the LOUD rain and wind. Absolutely howling wind and downpour all night … yet I just kept having this vibe … it’s doing its thing tonight and it’s going to clear up. Basically, the forecast […]
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Took a few more hostel pics this morning. Really can’t say enough about the experience. Clean, safe, friendly … $18. I did have to rent a towel for 2 euro … But otherwise no complaints. My roommate was from Zadar and was there for a death metal concert. She got in really late, but didn’t […]
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First day on my own! It was freaky and amazing! Most of the group left at dawn’s crack this morning. I luxuriated until about 8:30am after a sorta restless evening. Left the Hotel Academia (a very Ikea-looking vibe) at around 11:00am to go pick up a rental car at the airport. After re-acquainting myself with […]
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This day was a bit of a repeat, but lovely. I had not paid for any tours the day before, so was able to go inside a few places now. The pics are similar from yesterday, but it was pretty neat going inside Diocletian’s Palace. It is a daily awwwwhhhh moment to realize we’re seeing […]
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This was one of my favorite days so far just for the wander factor. I Googled things to do in Split the night before, so was able to gather a general area to head towards, but otherwise just walked. The weather every day so far has been perfect … and when checking the forecast prior […]
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I actually laid low on Day 4. I got back to the hotel about 3:30am from the Dance experience and we had a free day the next day. My knee had been wonky from the flight and all the walking, so it was pretty tender after dancing for several hours … SO! Coffee, breakfast, a […]
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Wandered around Lapad near the hotel and had some Pizza. Strolled down a little promenade area with restaurants and found a duo singing. I was chatting with the waitress and said I liked music & dancing so she invited me to go with her and friends to this Elemental show. It was AMAZING! Perfect for […]
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We drove south to Montenegro yesterday. After crossing the Croatia/Serbia border, our first stop was at Our Lady of the Rocks church & museum in Perast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Rocks. It POURED down rain for must of the bus trip, but then almost as soon as we got off the bus the rain stopped. A boat shuttle took […]
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Started the morning with a breakfast buffet. All the eggs. All the breakfast meats :). Then we hopped on the tour bus and drove down to Old Town Dubrovnik, about a 10-15 minute drive. Actually, we hopped in vans that took us to the bus. They are paving the road out in front of the […]
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I’m sitting in my hotel room waiting to go eat dinner in a minute. Eat dinner. It’s 7:06pm here in Croatia … 10:06am back home. I left Port Angeles about 7:15 am. Grabbed the Kitsap Airporter shuttle to Seatac. Met Ty who gave me good tips on Dubrovnik, cities for music in Italy, and a […]
Read More →I found this Mug CAKE recipe a while back and it’s THE BOMB: https://jenniferbanz.com/keto-mug-cake. I’ve tried it with all sorts of flavors … chocolate, chocolate chip, vanilla, spice, sunflower seed butter, lemon/blueberry (for lemon people, OMG, you must know about these True Citrus products!! – I use them in EVERYTHING.). This mug cake is SO […]
Read More →Life is a Dance Alan Watts: Life Is Not a Journey The existence, the physical universe is basically playful. There is no necessity for it whatsoever. It isn’t going anywhere. That is to say, it doesn’t have some destination that it ought to arrive at. But that it is best understood by the analogy with […]
Read More →FOMO – what’s missing? As I’ve been doing for my last few meditations, I’m taking things that I’ve read or concepts I’ve learned that have made a difference in building my “recovery” foundation … and it’s actually more LIFE foundation … The single most important part of my recovery has been changing a deprivation mindset […]
Read More →Glad to be here while Julia & Loh are gone. Even before we started on the topic of patience, I had been experiencing these little triggers/glimmers … Something that keeps popping up for me is the concept of urgency. I had this idea about Urgency and how it pervades our being … One of the […]
Read More →The Labels We Take On: How They Limit Our Potential – aka Watching our Language. First I’m going to read this, then we’ll move to a meditation on the subject. Article by Jeremy Scott Lambert on tinybuddha.com “Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.” ~Alan Watts […]
Read More →Nuggets from reading … Michael Singer – Untethered Soul & Living Unthethered … Both books have been profoundly helpful and an amazing complement to my Recovery Dharma practice. I love this Sangha and the mindfulness we learn, and these last few meditations are just tools to add to our arsenals. One nugget from the books […]
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