The Smell Of Burning Trash... by Zachary J. — transporting oneself, bali, my spiritual home | Gather

The Smell Of Burning Trash... by Zachary J. — transporting oneself, bali, my spiritual home | Gather: - continued- " I know that it is time to return, it is time to recapture that soul that lies floating in Bali's mystical seas. To hear those temple gamelan sounds, taste the burn of chili pepper and galangal, and feel the gritty sand mixed into the massage oil of my surrogate Balinese mother's hands as she rubs out the pains of surfing for eight hours a day. It is time indeed.

Zachary Judd
www.travelbums.info/forum"

The Smell Of Burning Trash... by Zachary J. — transporting oneself, bali, my spiritual home | Gather

The Smell Of Burning Trash... by Zachary J. — transporting oneself, bali, my spiritual home | Gather: "As I sit on the computer, trying to figure out the nuances of starting some sort of revenue generating activities to fund my adventures around the world, My mind wanders....

I can almost smell the burning trash, feel the hot tropical sun beating down on my back, see the indian ocean's raw power disguised as an incoming wave, and feel the salty burn in my eyes that is sitting in the lineup at Bingin Beach, Bali. This is my home: not temporal (at least not yet) and it isn't where I recieve my mail, but it is my home nonetheless. It is my spiritual home. when last I was there, in 2002, I left a small part of my soul there; floating in the lineup, looking at the perfect left hand reef waves, and communing with the resident sea cows and local surfers. Every once in a while this soul nugget awakens, catches a beautiful wave, peers out the almond eye of that emerald dream room, or breathes a bit of Bali's omnipresent wet-burning-exotic smell (if you have been there, I am sure you can picture it with your mind's nose), and I am instantly taken back there myself. That is what happened ten minutes ago while I was sitting here at my computer, and that is how I came to write this article.
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Gearing Up

Well, I had my first member of travel bums forum join last night! Other than myself and my girlfriend, I finally had someone join our forum! I was so excited- I got up, jumped up and down, and posted a email to this person immediately. It was a girl I had emailed on Myspace about a question on travelling in Thailand. I answered her question with a link to my site, and now I have one more person rocking the forum! This internet advertising thing is really quite amazing: I can tell though it is going to take some serious effort on my part to get the ball rolling, though! For anyone that picks up this blog: please join our forum! I really want this thing to take off, so for everyone I know, share your travel love!
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Feed Away!

I have just enabled the feed for this site using feedburner- Very easy to use and now everybody can subscribe to this blog! I know that this is a little high tech for alot of my friends and family to grasp right now, but for techno-able web people and blog veterans out there, hopefully you will stumble onto this blog, subscribe to it, and help me travel the world! Or you can post comments to my blog and link back to your site. Or you can join my forum for travelling beer drinkers of the world, located at travelbums.info/forum
Anyway, my first trip while managing this blog is about to happen this weekend, just a quick trip up the coast with my girlfriend to Cambria to celebrate our aniversary. Looking forward to it, though I will have to drag myself away from this computer long enough to have a nice weekend with her... I am sure I can manage a whole weekend without checking my email!
Zigbig

Horay!

I finally got this blog thing up and running! I am very happy about that, because now I can go ahead and continue with my massive advertising campaign about travelbums. This will be the place that all of my travel stories come to life for the duration of my trip. I suggest that you subscribe to this feed now, so that you can come with me as I travel the world, exploring new places and meeting cool people along the way! Check it out!
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