Sunday, January 3, 2010

Takht-e-Soleiman

My journey of the Magi: in reverse and up a mountain

I will be adding a new map as I find time to make. The first is "My journey of the Magi: in reverse and up a mountain". A trip I went on in the Spring and Summer of 2000. Having been lucky enough to catch the travel bug early on I was fortunate enough to have traveled to the Asian Sub-Continent in 1993-94 and again in 1997. When I returned from the 94' adventure I was gifted a copy of "Empire of the Soul: Some journeys in India" by P.W.R. . I enjoyed his comical observations and valiant effort to demystify and extricate the dogmatic nature of the religion of the area as only he can. So I was pleasantly surprised to pick up his copy of "The Journey of the Magi: In search of the birth of Jesus" in and around the year of 1996. This book of biblical fact and fiction was a catalyst for me to to get my sandals out and hit the dirt road after my 1997 India trip. After a couple years of planning and meeting the man (PWR), I was anxious to go...

My journey of the Magi