This is a follow on to a post from a guest blogger who was with us in Bali last year. This came about very organically. One of the guests on our Eat Pray & Love Bali tour in May, Kiya Cote, wrote this wonderful report about the trip and sent it out as an ongoing [...]
I’ve been working on my spiritual travel memoir for over two years, and I think it’s finally ready! I’ll be publishing the book this fall under the Spirit Quest World publishing imprint – in the meantime, enjoy this excerpt from the chapter, The Dogs of Egypt… The first dog I met in Egypt didn’t want [...]
Step on to the path climbing 3000 vertical feet to Taktsang Palphug (known commonly as “Tiger’s Nest”) and you will begin a trek that the people of Bhutan have been making for over 300 years. The way isn’t easy, but it’s also not hard, and, thankfully, the path is clearly marked.
We’ve been doing our Eat Pray Love Bali tour for almost 3 years now, and over time, we’ve changed it up a bit, based on feedback and our own experiences. Here’s what we’re doing on our September (and probably future) tours! Our Welcome Dinner in “Italy” has moved to Ubud! Though we had some [...]
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On our spiritual tour of Bali, we have just received beautiful massage treatments and pampering in a couples suite. It’s helping me to feel like I’ve found some balance for the first time in a while…
Another morning I follow the signs that say “nature walk”, down the steep mossy steps to a stone Balinese bathing fountain, past a splashing waterfall, along the river which marks the edge of the Maya property. I walk past plants whose leaves unfurl so large over my head that I could take shelter in a rainstorm.
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Of course a spiritual vacation is not all the earnest work of devotion. We are staying at the Maya Ubud, and a more integrated balance between luxurious four star service and raw nature I cannot imagine. The whole property is a lush tropical garden, set among the rice paddies of Ubud, itself the artistic heart of Bali, as well as where Liz Gilbert stayed when she wrote the Bali part of Eat Pray Love.
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Finding Balance in Bali This is part 1 of a 4 part series about a recent trip we took to Bali I am sitting in the stunning, airy bar of my gorgeous Balinese hotel and I am sweating… a lot. I’m on a spiritual tour that I’m leading and I’ve just had a ten-minute walk, [...]
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In honor of finishing my first draft of my book Travels Through Egypt I am posting a section on the guys who rent the camels, which is a favorite story – enjoy! Everyone visiting Egypt wants their picture taken on a camel. There is therefore no shortage of enterprising young men who hover as close as the Pyramid [...]
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About every quarter, we pack an overnight bag, leave the dogs with a housesitter, and drive the two-and-a-half hours from LA to San Diego to visit my favorite cousin, Randy, and his long-time girlfriend, Lisa. Wonderful people, warm, hospitable and friendly, Lisa is a Catholic who attends mass, well, religiously, and Randy is a bit of an atheist. In fact, he seems to have embraced food as his religion, and Greg and I inevitably come home with a “meat hangover” by Sunday evening.
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