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Good Earth Spicy Tea Have A Ride On The Top 10 Scenic Drives Around The World —Go on a jaunt today. After a whole week of hectic schedules filled with a plethora of activities like preparing an ...
Good Earth Spicy Tea
Have A Ride On The Top 10 Scenic Drives Around The World—Go on a jaunt today. After a whole week of hectic schedules filled with a plethora of activities like preparing an important presentation, attending important meetings, taking your child to school, taking your spouse to shopping, you literally feel the need to have some time exclusively for yourself. If you have a car, then all you have to do is pick up your car keys, get out of the office or house, put the keys into ignition and drive yourselves to the top 10 scenic drives around the world, for a ride surely energizes you to the core. 1. Western Desert, Egypt: One of the most wonderful places in the world, the western desert is splayed across the road that takes you from Cairo to Egypt. The desert truly reminds you of the importance of water in our lives. As soon as you think of water, you come across the five most spectacular oases like Kharga, Dhakla, Siwa and so on, across this magnificent desert. The most beautiful fact of this desert is that it runs along the mother River Nile, a river that has an amazing history and has given birth to one of the greatest civilizations of the world. This scenic drive truly takes you to the heart of the deepest historical events of Egypt and Cairo. You can hitch up a ride and be ready with the tents so that you can spend a peaceful night in this wonderful desert. 2. The Seward Highway: Though acclaimed as a U.S. highway by the U.S. Transportation department, on the Seward Highway you can witness the dazzling Alaskan beauty all along your ride. If you constantly look out for different varieties in your whole life, then this highway is the exact picture of your life because it is full of variegated landscapes that involve the breathtakingly beautiful waterfalls, the lush green forests with beautiful never-seen-before flora and the enthralling mountain goats, sheep enjoying on the green shrubs. You can also enjoy the exciting scene of beluga whales running in the waters totally packed with ice along the whole drive. While looking at the amazing flora and fauna you can go for camping on this place and also enjoy fishing. 3. Transfagarasan road, Romania: If you have the reruns of the Dracula, the vampire movie again and again and you just can’t get over with your obsession towards vampires all thanks to Stephanie Meyer for her sexy, handsome vampire, Edward Cullen from the Twilight Saga, or the utterly attractive vampire, Bill Compton, from the television series “True Blood”, then this road directly leads to the historic land of vampires, Transylvania. Besides the vampire history, this road is full of lush green forests that accompany with lofty Carpathian Mountains and an exciting castle of Vlad III- the man from whom the character of Dracula was inspired. 4. Icefields Parkway, Alberta, Canada: If you are in awe with roads that are so long that you just cannot see its end then the Ice fields parkway is the best driving road for you. The beauty of this road is enhanced by the colossal black mountains that are crowned with the whitest snow, the deep forests with thick growth of flora and amazing fauna like the moose, elks and bears, the bluest of the rivers combined with turquoise waters and the mesmerizing waterfalls. Though it is impossible to drive on this highway in winter, this road is awesomely smooth in rest of the seasons. 5. Alsace Wine Route, France: Being a true wine lover, you ought to go on a ride along the Alsace Wine route in France. This route contains a beautiful treasure of most rustic scenic beauties in the form of Rhenan plains, the huge Vosges Mountains, the awesome castles that remind you of the medieval times, the rustic villages with their own amazing cultures and customs, the wonderful rives and much more. You can treasure all these scenic memories in your heart along with the breathtakingly mesmerizing view of the Mont Sainte Odile. 6. The Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia: If you wish to see the unique combination of earth and sea then the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia is the best place for you to take a ride on. This trail is not just a huge stretch of road, it is often interrupted with colossal mountains that are snow clad surrounded by the deep thick forests with lush green flora. As you drive further on, you can also see the majestic whales enjoying the cold waters. Once you start riding on, you suddenly come to an end towards the mighty Atlantic Ocean that truly mesmerizes you to the core. Along the ride, you can also enjoy the sights of the Margaree Valley and Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Once you come on this trail for a drive, make sure that you have time to go on trekking on this beautiful scenic location. 7. Grossglocknerstrasse, Austria: The highest mountain in the Alpines of Austria, the Grossglockner Mountain is surely a mesmerizing sight for many tourists and visitors alike. However, the original fun involves in riding on the high alpine road that takes you to this lofty mountain in Austria. The sweet fragrance in the air is truly wonderful that takes you on a dream ride along the beautiful meadows, amazing flora and fauna around and the never-melting glacier the Pasterze. Driving on this road will truly be an experience of a lifetime. 8. The Vermont Route, Newport, Vermont: Yet another greatest scenic drives is along the Vermont Route. The specialty of this route is that you never have to stop until and unless you want to. That’s right, there are no traffic signals on this route and hence you do not have to dread the stop lights any time. The route surrounds the Green Mountain National Forest and hence has a beautiful green view. The other good thing about this route is that you can find small inns, antique shops and so on to hang out. 9. Highway 94, New Zealand: The best scenic drive in New Zealand, this highway takes you to Milford through Fiordland. If you have always believed that the mountains always arise from the lands then this highway proves you wrong. This highway takes you to the high and mighty Mountains that directly appear through the water. The steep highway road, at a point of time, is so surrounded by lush green thick forests that it typically reminds you of medieval times. While driving on this highway, you come across mesmerizing waterfalls and amazing ferns. Since this highway is surrounded by rain forests, it is best to enquire about the weather before going on the jaunt. 10. Munnar Road, Kerala: This road leads to one of the best known hill stations in India, Munnar, a town that witnesses the joining of three lofty mountains. While driving of the Munnar road, you are ensnared in the sweet fragrance of the fresh tea leaves from innumerable tea plantations. Along with tea plantations, this road is surrounded by a variety of flora and fauna. While going further on the road you can also embrace the spicy scents of innumerable Indian spices while looking at the mist covered mountains and hill tops. Hurry up and visit these beautiful scenic drives before the weather crashes your plans. About the Author Neelima Reddy, author of this article writes for TheTravelersZone.com. The Travelers blog helps you learn everything you need to know about traveling. Know more about making your travel experience into wonderful experience. Visit The Travelers Blog |
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The World Was Once Flat
Sometimes I have to remind myself that things have changed and I have to get over what has passed. What happened to the $.10 coffee?
Getting ready to go to work this morning, I opened up my wallet to check out the cash flow. Gees… there was only a twenty dollar bill in there - time to fill up again. I thought for a moment and bemoaned the fact that $20 was a lot of money when I was a kid.
I remember that the coffee growers invented a frost that killed off many of the plants - a wonderful feat of manifesting. Coffee soon jumped to $1.00 a cup and has never come down. Of course, tea, and chocolate followed and everything else you put into your mouth (supply and demand). As a kid growing up in an impoverished family, we ate cheaply. Chicken was the cheapest of the foods. Can you remember $.10 a pound for wings or necks? When I first starting driving, the gas was less than $.40 a gallon and spending $20 on a date was a pretty good evening.
When I remember back to older people complaining about how things had gone up, and in their day things were like this or that. I remember thinking "get over it" get with the present. I had little patience for them. But things have changed and it is now me echoing the good ole days.
I have been spending too much time on the food channel for lack of anything better to watch. I am single and for years I have been eating out. Influenced by what I have been watching on TV, I have recently decided to start cooking again.
What the… $15 a kg for chicken - you gotta be kidding! My first major creation after I returned to the kitchen was to attempt spicy apple and raison pork chops - I got this from a new cookbook from one of those Food Channel personalities. Not having anything in the cupboards to support this recipe I went out shopping. Total price for the meal including the 1 lb $6.00 pork chop was $38.00 and I over cooked the pork chop.
I bought my first house for $10,000 in 1973 and the $100 mortgage payment was killing me. The house is worth half a million dollars today.
Every new generation must practice patience as they listen to the complaints of their parents and grand parents.
Why can't things stay the same? Why is there inflation? What's the deal with supply and demand? What happened to the promise of the industrial revolution that we would have more recreational time and less work? Why are there now two breadwinners in a family just to meet the payments? What's happened to us and why have we lost our way?
As we moved away from the land and our connection to it, life became more complicated. Greed became the motivating factor for working harder, because working harder would increase the available choices we could make, so we started raping the land and over producing. We encouraged higher populations so that we could compete in the global market and sell the surpluses which increased demands for goods, which brought higher prices.
Today unabridged exploitation is the norm - but what is it that wealth and power is supposed to bring to the money changers? Why are we caught up in productivity? Why are the world governments working together with the money changers to bring about a cashless society? What's in it for the money changers and governments?
It's absolute control and power, and for the few that will be in charge, they believe it will bring them happiness. We all have the same goal - we want to be happy. But what happens when we have reached our goals and we are not happy. It motivates us to keep going. The ironic thing about this philosophy is that it doesn't work. Happiness doesn't come from gathering abundance.
Men of power and abundance have shown us through the ages that they are never really happy. In fact when one has reached the top of the mountain and looked over it, one becomes depressed when the elation is over. If it was only the mountain that was to be conquered then one soon runs out of mountains. Dictators have demonstrated that power over life and death and the land often leads to self destruction one way or the other. Power corrupts in the spiritually immature mind. All of these people have substituted happiness for power and they find themselves unfulfilled.
Society has everything backwards. To know happiness you have to be happy first, and then you seek to demonstrate it physically. A happy mind does not have to do things to make it happy. In fact a happy mature mind knows that doing or acquiring things does not make one happy. Often it brings sadness and fear.
The world may have been flat at one time, and once Columbus discovered otherwise, the world overall did not change its happiness quotient. The world may have been flat, but it was still three dimensional, with those living on the edge and others living underneath. For all that exploring, humanity has made very poor progress in discovering its true nature.
The industrial revolution and technical evolution has left us cold and disconnected. We are not the highly developed species we think we are.
The truth is none of these things matter unless we think it does. There are fine examples of small societies that have not changed in millennia. In this highly technical world there are people living on dirt floors with no doors are glass in their windows. These people may hunt or forage for food for two hours a day to sustain themselves and the rest of the day is spend in socializing and rest. They are happy and content with what they have. They have found their true nature and their connection to the earth and their environment. They started off happy and they demonstrate it in their quality time in leisure. We label these people as primitive, but we have missed their greatest gift to humanity - simple living and maintaining the connection to the earth is happy, is contentment, and is our true nature.
From the isolated tribes in the jungle, to the man landing on the moon, our present physical reality demonstrates the diversity of humanities imagination. But it clearly demonstrates what it lacks the most and what it seeks to envelope.
The astronaut may discover new worlds and the wonders of the universe, but he looks back from space on a world that as wondrous as it is, lives far away from what it seeks. In the coldness of space this little planet could be radiating warmth to the rest of the universe, but it is cooling off. Cold collapses in on itself - heat expands. Life produces heat and death is cold.
When it comes to happiness it cannot be created by technology, visiting other worlds or Heaven. It is something that is always within arms reach. You are either happy or you are not and it is always a choice.
The world changes, but how it changes is determined by us, by each individual. We may not wish to live in a jungle, but we do not have to get caught up in the race for new technology. We do not have to over populate or over produce. The simple societies have shown us that their happiness is demonstrated by being socially involved and connected to the land, whether it is round or flat. In our struggle to find happiness - we leave it behind.
Our effort to move past horizons should be an expression of happiness not a search for it. As a species it is natural to demonstrate our happiness by sharing it with others and the land, and then we endeavor to change things to demonstrate our happiness.
We are happy so we go out and buy new cloths to show off our happiness. Or we cook something special for dinner. We may buy a new car, furniture or some toy to demonstrate our happiness. Or we may get involved in a relationship. Happiness must be expressed in a changed mindset - change alone does not express happiness unless it is created through happiness. We can lament about the good ole days, but most often it is an expression of sadness of days gone by and a recognition of our now more complicated life style. It is a feeling that we have truly lost something special, our innocence and happiness.
We are born being happy and full of wonder, and we learn to be unhappy. Once again, this is a choice, we can always be happy if we choose to be. If we make happiness a priority, it will lead us to simplicity. It will change our mindset and we will strive to only do things which make us happy. "Let happiness be your guide" is powerful wisdom that will transform your life forever. And as we continue to be happy, it will spread to all those around us and everyone will benefit.
Your own happiness should be the number one priority. This is rational and selfish, but necessary. If you are not happy, you have nothing to give. People are motivated by the happiness of others and happiness always spills over. People, who are happy, have abundance and they always share it.
This is difficult to understand in a selfless society where you are taught to place other people's happiness over your own. All one has to do is look at where we are today and see that selflessness does not work.
As an individual, we give happiness when we have it to give. We automatically change our environment and welcome it in complete joy without regret. I would be OK with knowing the world is flat because I know my happiness would spill over.
About the Author
Roy E. Klienwachter is a resident of British Columbia, Canada. A published author, a student of NLP, New Age Light Worker, Teacher and Phenomenologist. Roy's books and articles are thought provoking, and designed to empower your imagination, and take you to places you would never have thought of.
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