Toronto, Ontario
Go It Together
I received a call from Michael who took to the Trans Canada Highway in 2001/2002 on foot with a backpack. We made an agreement to go it out together on the road for a three week stint.
Starting in mid May we plan to drive to Taber, Alberta, the spot from where I left off last summer. We will stop a bit along the way, put on our shoes (I, with Crocs), while he will be equipped with camera, hopeful to capture the beauty of the road, the rhythm of walking, and all that visual vista stuff that people usually see as post cards. The filming will be like a reenactment of the walk I did last summer, until we arrive at Taber, when business will be as usual to complete a fourth trek, bringing me to the edge of British Columbia.
I’m really looking forward to it because in addition to having the usual company of support person, Daruka, and his blue front Amazon parrot, there will also be Michael, a most amiable person. Up for the challenge will be those occasional cool prairie breezes, and then the intermittent warming Chinook winds coming from the Rockies. There will be the upward downward trends of pacing once hitting those lovely mountains. I will not be surprised to hear the jazz of the road, that is, the last clumps of snow, sliding off the arms of the coniferous trees, and the feet making the beat gritting the gravel on the highway shoulder. It will also be the time of invigoration, rebirth, of so much life springing into action.
Michael knows the road I’ve tread, he’s done it before – the Crow’s Nest Pass. And, of course, we’ll be seeing smart crows in flight, and I’ll be dreaming of smooth sailing swans during naps which will take place by the side of the road that will offer a peace like nothing else. Hare Krishna!
Thanks for calling, Michael, it’s a deal. We’ve nailed down the date, May 17th.
May the Source be with you!
2 KM
ISKCON Brampton Festival of Chariots
Fasting………. on 
Appearance of Lord Nrsimhadeva
The entire path around the Hill is said to be about 15 miles (24 km), and it took us almost six hours. 
Multimedia network of The International Society for Krishna Consciousness or The Hare Krishna Movement 
Great program last night…!!! A great bunch of people came from all backgrounds, around 130-150 attended throughout the evening 
A very enthusiastic group of youths both loudly sang the mantra and danced exuberantly with the devotees.
Wonderful oxen and bull, eager to perform their service! 
It was so wonderful to see the devotee kids from Alachua Hare Krishna temple coming to the plazas of America, at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, and chanting the holy names of God, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. 
Krishna-kripa Das: We passed three different barber shops, in which all the barbers left their customers partially shaved in their chairs as the barbers themselves watched the chanting party from the doors of their shops, and in at least one case, took the prasadam being distributed. 
Nityananda Chandra Das: The owner of this festival called our temple some years back and made a complaint that we did not show up with our kirtan party!