Departure

And thus it begins.

I awoke last night to the gentle caress of rain on my face as I slept in my mom's backyard. With a full and heavy heart, I was still under the spell of gratitude, inspiration, and whatever other virtues there were that surrounded us that evening.

Thanks to everyone who were able to make it out last night for your support and friendship. I am immeasurably grateful and thankful to have such a wonderful community of friends.

If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, perhaps this is my cue to join the rest of you in taking that step. My journey leads South, but the collective movement of steps we are all taking expands in all directions of the heart, the mind, and the feet.

Please join me on my voyage through this site. Until I find a better way to post stories and pictures, you will find them here.

Here's to wishing everyone the best in all of your endeavors.

Happy Trails,
Japhy
www.jeffdhungana.us

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"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you --- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."

-- Edward Abbey