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@ 2012 Tami Casias You know you have to get out when you find yourself ironing rather than writing. So when I needed to travel to my daughter’s home in Nebraska at the same time that I had writing projects due, I started looking at my options. Puddle jumping across the Midwest on economy flights shows off the patchwork of US agricultural diversity in sections rimmed by property lines and lengths of sprinkler systems. But flying east, into the future, often brings a quick end to daylight, and you’re left trying to get comfortable in a seat too small, eating sodium-stuffed snacks while watching your feet swell. Driving east from California follows high-desert Highway 80, so bland and repetitive it’s like running in a Flintstone’s cartoon. Your feet may be moving, but the only things getting anywhere are the tumbleweeds that repeatedly lap by. You’re left closing the blinds on the RV to avoid a glare on the television and replaying the Indiana Jones trilogy while everyone but the driver enjoys freshly blended margaritas and a game of 'May I?' So I boarded a US train for the first time since I'd worked as a hostess on the Skunk Train in Mendocino County during high school. I'd have just the rocking pull, my laptop and time for my characters to tell me how the story ends. Best case scenario I’d have a wonderful trip and get a lot accomplished. Worst case, there was a bar car. The train followed basically the same route I’d already driven, so I didn’t expect to be distracted by the scenery. This was my first miscalculation. Traveling at times only yards away from the usual roadway was discombobulating—like looking at the usual, but while standing on your head. I was used to the many malls and shopping centers that dot 80 through Sacramento. But from the back, they looked like refugee camps with everything from scattered mattresses to tent villages pressed against the back of cinder block walls. This rear view improved immensely as the train climbed into the Sierras and I recognized the backside of my regular restaurant stop in Auburn, just out the east window. As I turned to the west, I could see that the small town actually sat at the edge of a tree-filled valley. All these years, driving only yards away from this scene and not knowing. I had a backstage pass to beautiful. Six hours after leaving Martinez, we passed the Reno station. The cars quieted and I decided to take my work to dinner. I would love sitting through a long meal in a noisy setting, letting all the background talk fade into a pleasant buzz as I wrote, only I hadn’t counted on dining car etiquette. I arrived at my seating reservation with my laptop ready, to be told “We seat family style.” I was paired up with another single and a couple to fill out the table of four. Absolutely no room left on the table for a laptop, let alone a pad of paper. So I resigned myself to enjoying the setting of cloth napkins and fresh freesias. I’d eat quickly then get back to work. What I was missing in writing time I was getting in character development. I understood the concept of island time, but on a transcontinental train hurrying turned out to be ridiculous and impossible. No one has anywhere else to go. Dinner is to be savored and lingered over. It took at least an hour. Using what was, I’m sure, great wisdom, Amtrak scheduled the route so the train left Reno near sunset and powered through desolate Northern Nevada in the dark of night. The ear plugs deep in my backpack saved me from a night near a crying baby, and after some productive pages, I fell asleep somewhere outside Salt Lake City. I woke early, excited to have another full day onboard. I enjoyed a breakfast of fresh oatmeal and fruit, then carried my things to the observation car and put in a good four hours before I found myself staring out the window more than at the monitor.

The train roughly followed Highway 70 along the Colorado River, south of my usual route. Passing high-desert shrubs we criss-crossed the water as we slowly climbed the Rockies. On the north side were tall dusty buttes and rock formations, while on the south the rushing waterway was framed with greenery and spotted with multi-colored tents as men and women enjoyed fishing in the last of the clear weather before the first snows. It was fun to see campers waving to the train as if they knew someone onboard. Even the occasional wave from the waxing moon of a heavyset camper was met with quiet giggles and harrumphs from the passengers. I gave the afternoon to the glistening water and the camaraderie of fellow passengers.

Daylight ended as we reached Denver. Though technically in Colorado, many local mountain men refer to the large city and everything else east of the Rockies as Kansas, due to the flat, distant horizon. I settled in for a few hours of writing when one of the women passed around two pounds of cheese and began unpacking piles of quilt fabric, patterns and scissors onto her chair. “If you’re bored, I brought a lot to cut,” she offered. I declined, chatted for a few moments on the number of unfinished sewing projects I already had at home, then when another woman engaged her on Q versus R-sized feet for embroidery machines, I slipped my ear plugs in and hunkered down. Later, when I’d packed everything up, hoping for a nap before reaching Lincoln at 3:30 a.m. I heard the first woman ask, “Would anyone like any udder cream? I have it in my fanny pack.” So instead of going to sleep, I began to think of a new book -- about a woman who travels back and forth across the country by train creating quilts based on the people she meets along the way. Maybe this will be me. I think I’ll take the Southern route next time…perhaps a trip to New Orleans. Tami Casias wrote local news for years while raising four children. Nowadays, writing fiction for young adults while sitting in coffee shops has taken the place of city council meetings. She uses her degree in Journalism to research new ideas for stories. Tami lives with her husband and Yorkshire terrier, Bruiser, in Sonoma, California.

©2011 by Dr. Joan Steidinger The concept was simple: attend a sports conference in Hawaii, then – and most importantly – travel to Nepal to run a three-day stage race to raise funds for a small Nepali orphanage. Nobody had explained much about the race, but that part of the journey was destined to become a major adventure. It began in Kathmandu at the Manaslu Hotel, a large, older hotel tucked quietly into a hillside on the outer reaches of the city. Along with the other runners, I checked in (with my husband, JP) and received instructions. We would be on our own for dinner, up at 5:00 am for breakfast, then off towards Tibet at 6:00 a.m. Quickly we located a place for massage, then spent the afternoon resting in our Tibetan-style room overlooking a large, verdant lawn and pale blue rectangle pool. Off to bed early. Up before dawn, we ate an American-style breakfast and climbed aboard one of four buses decorated in mustard yellow, royal blue, and cherry red. Soon we were driving on the only road heading north out of Kathmandu. Wall to wall traffic moved at a crawl as we inched our way out of the city. In the countryside the vehicles thinned out, and we traveled on a paved, but horribly rutted road. After several hours we stopped at a small village for a traditional meal of dahl baht, lentils and rice – the staple diet of Nepal. This would be our last stop before the road to Tibet began to get interesting, which began when the pavement ended. The route to the remote villages of Dunche and Shyaphru, where the race was staged, placed us on one of the most dangerous roads that I’ve ever been on in a bus. It was unpaved, rocky, rutted and muddy, with barely a lane for the buses and, at its edge, a thousand foot drop. The mud and rocks were especially loose due to periodic downpours, causing the busses to jostle considerably as we drove slowly northwards. We were heading toward the Langtang Valley and surrounding peaks, a region of Nepal that has remained poor due to its inaccessibility. Apparently, landslides are a common occurrence in this area. The talk on the bus focused on possible landslides ahead when the bus crested a hill and we looked down to find our fears realized – a massive landslide had covered the road. The buses could go no further. The plan was for the racers and crew to take our belongings off the buses and engage local Nepalese to carry the heavier bags over the earthfall. Our instructions were to carry our smaller items over the slide and a few kilometers beyond.

We began walking, individually and in small groups, picking our way through the unstable rock and mud. The mucky, rutted road kept going up and up and up. After a couple of kilometers, with hills rising endlessly before us, it started to rain. We weren’t dressed for rain. I wore only a black short-sleeved Skyline 50K polyester running top and khaki hiking shorts, and I was cold. I was carrying a cotton Vietnamese book bag for a purse and a well-used and dusty Kelty backpack, and when my back began to hurt from its weight I carried the backpack in front of me and upside down to keep the contents dry. The rain began to come down in buckets. Now everyone was shivering, but we continued doggedly uphill. An hour later the rain subsided, but our scramble over rocks and mud continued. After 15 minutes, lulled into a false sense of security because the rain had stopped, I took off my shirt, pulled a warm, dry, polyester, black, hooded jacket from my backpack and put it on. Warmth, at last!

Within 10 minutes, the rain started again, and once more I was cold. As we crossed gigantic puddles and patches of mud, we slid around on the small rocky track, disconcerted by the 1,000-foot drop on our left side. Groups of people gathered beneath rock outcroppings and in the few forested areas that provided brief protection from the downpour. Finally after several hours of walking (five miles later), we arrived at a couple of local teahouses with seats and high tables made out of boards set out under green tarps. Everyone was shivering and cold, all vying to get a cup of hot tea. JP managed to grab a couple of mugs, which warmed us immediately. When a few runners spotted a multi-colored bus and a royal blue truck, apparently waiting for us, a mad dash ensued as all sizes of runners quickly leapt for the bus. By the skin of our teeth, JP and I snagged spots in the bus’s standing room only area. The remaining group had to ride in the back of the truck with the luggage and blue tarps draped over them. We were happy to be out of the rain, but the precarious lurching of the vehicles on the narrow, rocky road did not inspire much confidence. Still, our un-scheduled walk on this dangerous road had been good preparation for the steep up and down of the three-day stage Himalayan race, which we would be starting before dawn. We would rely on headlamps to illuminate the arduous trails in the first hours of the race. The race itself posed other challenges. The racers were expected to arise every morning at 3:45 am for 5:00 am starts..…I am so not a morning person. Food was not provided on the course unless you brought your own or paid for it…..I didn’t bring enough food or money. Worst of all, I failed to allow enough time to overcome the impact of altitude and jet lag. At the end of the second day, for the first time ever, I was pulled from the race. Suffering from hypothermia, I crawled onto the back of a small Japanese dirt motorcycle, and the seemingly endless ride down the rough terrain of a narrow fire road did not improve my condition. When JP and race personnel scooped me off the bike at the finishing area, my face was stark white, I was shivering uncontrollably, and my lips, cheeks and fingernails were indigo blue. The doctor who examined me discovered my normally low blood pressure to be sky high. His prescription, “No salt!” What happened? I completely ran out of internal fuel. I only managed to run/hike for 18 hours for two days, plus the dangerous road walk. I was completely exhausted. I had never felt so physically weak at the end of a race (not even 100 milers). At age 56, I approached this event as my old self – a 40-year-old and active competitive ultra distance runner. It turned out that more pre-race preparation was needed for maybe the oldest woman in the race. Immediately following the race we visited the Freedom Children’s Welfare Center orphanage. This is our friend, Pancha’s, orphanage, and we had raised enough funds to cover a year of educational costs for all 26 kids. Pancha is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the orphanage. We were greeted at the door by Kamala, the main caretaker, Passon, a former resident, and the child greeting committee, Angyil. Angyil, a five-year-old boy, immediately took my hand, showed me around, and wouldn’t let go for the longest time.

When the book boxes that we brought were opened, Angyil dove right in and brought a picture book about mountain animals to show me. We met with Kamala and her staff over black tea to learn about the operation of the center. Each child had his or her own bed and attended private school to receive a thorough education. JP flew home that night, but the next day I went back to the orphanage. Once again, Angyil waited by the front door and grabbed my hand immediately to show me around. When he wanted my attention, he would call me ma’am. This day, Kamala had her assistants fix a wonderful lunch which Pancha, Kamala, a fellow trekking guide named Emmet, and I enjoyed. This was an example of the wonderful homespun hospitality of Nepal and most Asian countries. I knew we had chosen the perfect charity on which to focus our time and effort. JP and I have agreed that we will take on the center as our ongoing project. We plan to be actively involved in assisting with the educational needs of the children. Our overall trip involved a dangerous road, but at the end of that road we were able to share our abundance with the orphaned children of Nepal. Dr. Joan Steidinger is an AASP Certified sports psychologist, writer, and ardent traveler. She wrote “Dr. Joan’s Sports Psych Talk” for SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle Website. Her column “Blood, Sweat, and Cheers” which focuses on female athletes, sports performance, and relationships, currently runs in the online magazine Psychology Today. Joan has traveled the world over primarily participating in active vacations, such as climbing mountains, trekking, running, cycling, and scuba diving. She recently climbed a mountain in Ladakh, India and traveled to Nepal to run a three-day stage race raising funds for a small Nepali orphanage.

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I’m told the Palmetto Trail becomes much more rigorous as it heads up into the high country, a place of 60-foot waterfalls and 1000-foot ascents, a place to visit when my ankle is stronger and I have a lot more time. One Southern friend said, “Fine trail like that, you can’t do it all at once. You have to take it slow.” Wise words. I’ll be back. The hike isn’t over. In fact it’s only begun.

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From "On the Palmetto Trail", ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin. You can read the whole story, as it originally appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, here.

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As an interesting aside, each doctor from that point on, the lab doctor, Dr. Castro, the surgeon, was more Calvin Klein model-esque than the next. What are the odds? The only way to explain it is that in Argentina you get into medical school based on your looks. The nurses have an entirely different set of requirements. A handful of expatriates and a couple of Argentines, some of them strangers an hour earlier, had gathered in the examining room to help. There was Johnny from South Africa, who had survived 14 heart attacks at the age of 35. There were Annette and John, Brits who traveled the world on motorbikes before ending up in San Rafael to try their hands at farming, and there were Angel and Rosie, he Argentine, she Mexican, along with their daughter Candy. They'd recently moved to San Rafael, Argentina from Las Vegas. Did you get all that? Fifteen-year old Candy was unflappable as my interpreter until they got to ''medical stuff''. Great. Argentines speak Castillano. 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By Deborah Griffin Roadworks: Deborah I pressed the bumper sticker onto my dashboard. Good Girls Go to Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere. It was my mantra for the trip I was about to take. For the first time in my life I would be on the road with no destination. Every other trip I'd taken was charted to within an inch of its life, mapped and reserved ahead with a quota of miles per day. Not this one. Part spiritual quest, part art journey, this would be a trip with time to think, to make decisions about the rest of my life. On the passenger seat lay a new journal, its smooth pages ready to record with words and sketches the adventures that lay before me. As I drove west toward the unknown, the idea of â€˜bad girls' kept playing in my brain. Bad girls, as opposed to good girls who never got dirty, never quit their jobs or left their husbands; who raised good little girls just like Mommy, and worked hard to get into heaven. But what if bad girls really do go everywhere, including heaven? 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By Nancy E Rapp In the fall of 2003 I found myself intrigued by the lyrics of Loreena McKennitt's song, Dante's Prayer. Cast your eyes on the ocean Cast your soul to the sea When the dark night seems endless Please remember me.

I wondered what it was that McKennitt wanted us to remember about Dante, who was, to me, a rather mysterious figure from the Middle Ages. I did a little research into the historical Dante Alighieri, and some of what I discovered struck me as significant in today's post-9/11 world. Dante began to write The Divine Comedy two years after he was exiled from Florence for political reasons. I found it fascinating that he did his finest work during the nineteen years that he was barred from his beloved city, forced to rely on the charity of foreign patrons. He expressed his distaste at the burden of his outsider status in these lines: You shall leave everything most dearly loved! You shall discover how salty is the savor Of someone else's bread Paradiso XVII

For Dante, a native of Florence where even today bread is made without salt, the taste of salted bread was a visceral symbol of his exile. Perhaps it was that sense of displacement, that loss of all that was familiar and precious that compelled him to begin the poem that would become his masterwork. The sympathy that I feel for the tragedy of his exile however, is tempered by the knowledge of how passionate he must have felt about his great poem. Pincio Gardens, Rome What, then, is the â€˜salted bread' of our lives? Maybe it is the bizarre and frightening array of headlines that bombards us daily. More than ever before, I am aware of the cracked mirror of history, the collapse of governments and the breath of the cold river of the future ahead of us. Natural and man-made disasters are on the menu â€“ and sometimes seem like the main course â€“ of our contemporary times. The choices that we make to survive, physically and mentally, are crucial. In an atmosphere like this, how do we create anything of beauty? After 9/11 my own passion for creating something new in the world was stunted by picture after picture of black smoke rising into the perfect blue of a September sky. Perhaps that is why I was so struck by McKennitt's song and its suggestion that we look to the past for examples of courage in unsettled times. In reflecting back to Dante's time and place, I sought new ideas and a fresh wave of inspiration. I imagined Dante's hand as he began the first line of what would become The Divine Comedy. Carefully he would dip the quill into ink the color of overripe blackberries. He would tap the sharpened tip lightly against the rim of the container, then place it against the vellum and begin to write. The rest of the world â€“ sorrow, exile, the hatred of men â€“ would fall away. Despite everything thrown into his path â€“ war, unjust prosecution, permanent banishment from his home and the seizure of his family assets â€“ Dante prevailed, and by prevailing he left us a blueprint to follow: Never lose sight of the goals that you have set for yourself.

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