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Confessions of a Cruise Director
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| Blog Name: | Confessions of a Cruise Director |
| Url: | http://www.spiritquesttours.com/blog |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | travel, spirituality, spiritual tours |
| Description: | Travel dispatches from spiritual trips all over the world, experiences and stories, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, along with traveler's tips. All written by Spirit Quest Tours' co-founder, Halle Eavelyn, aka Julie the Cruise Director. |
| Popularity: | 97 Followers |
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Finding Spirituality Everywhere
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.
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.
Enjoying Ramadan in Cairo
Ramadan, the most important Muslim holiday, is celebrated for the whole month, and it changes almost everything about Cairo. Ramadan is a time to get closer to God, making self-sacrifices to be awake and aware of your choices, so people fast all day every day during the month of Ramadan. This means not only no eating, but no drinking (not even a sip of water), no smoking, no sex, and no smoking! I think the no smoking stricture may be harder on the Egyptians than no sex. The result of people not eating all day is that, for the most part, everything is closed during daylight hours. With few exceptions in the tourist areas, where the poor waiters and chefs are serving food the
Ramadan, the most important Muslim holiday, is celebrated for the whole month, and it changes almost everything about Cairo. Ramadan is a time to get closer to God, making self-sacrifices to be awake and aware of your choices, so people fast all day every day during the month of Ramadan. This means not only no eating, but no drinking (not even a sip of water), no smoking, no sex, and no smoking! I think the no smoking stricture may be harder on the Egyptians than no sex. The result of people not eating all day is that, for the most part, everything is closed during daylight hours. With few exceptions in the tourist areas, where the poor waiters and chefs are serving food the
Eat, Pray, and Love Bali
In honor of the wonderful book Eat, Pray, Love and the movie (which is filming in Bali this month!) Spirit Quest Tours is hosting an “Eat, Pray, and Love Bali” trip in May, 2010. And in honor of that trip, let’s take a little virtual tour of my favorite places in Bali… Gulingen… about a half an hour outside of Ubud is the little Balinese village of Gulingen. Our driver drops us off at a rice paddie and we walk, single file, through the rice fields, across a little ridge path. In about five minutes we arrive, sitting under a thatched roof in an open pavilion. The Balinese ladies give us a cooking demonstration, and show us how the love
In honor of the wonderful book Eat, Pray, Love and the movie (which is filming in Bali this month!) Spirit Quest Tours is hosting an “Eat, Pray, and Love Bali” trip in May, 2010. And in honor of that trip, let’s take a little virtual tour of my favorite places in Bali… Gulingen… about a half an hour outside of Ubud is the little Balinese village of Gulingen. Our driver drops us off at a rice paddie and we walk, single file, through the rice fields, across a little ridge path. In about five minutes we arrive, sitting under a thatched roof in an open pavilion. The Balinese ladies give us a cooking demonstration, and show us how the love
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