Europe Days

I’m currently looking for some Rome hotels to stay at because I, together with some of my friends will be going there in the middle of the year, or at least provided the economy doesn’t get worse than it currently is. We always wanted to go there and I believe this has been like five years in the making and this time, we will all make sure that we will push through with the plan. There seems to be a raincloud floating over the plan because every time we had the opportunity to go to Rome, there is always something happening that has kept us from going. Like one time, we were supposed to go but a week before the trip, I met an accident and had to have my right arm casted.

The other time my friend all of a sudden got pregnant and she can’t take plane rides because she was having a very delicate case. One thing about Rome, we always wanted to go to and see the traces of the Roman Empire and the museums that they have in there. All of us seemingly got captivated by the wonders of the capital city of Italy, and the main reason why we wanted to go there is to be able to eat spaghetti in an old school, Italian fashion.

I was assigned to find a place for our family to have some spiritual retreats for all of us and I was really thinking where we could go. I was checking out some information about some places when I saw some interesting facts about Ringing Cedars (refers to a book about our connection to nature) and found out that there is a Ringing Cedars Series that contains some of the most important revelations to appear in thousands of years of human history, which are so significant, they are changing the course of our destiny and rocking scientific and religious circles to the core. I thought this is a good thing to have in our spiritual retreat along with Shamanism (refers to being a partnership with nature to heal people) to make our experience complete. I was thinking, maybe we could go to Sedona in Arizona, since the place is known for its spiritual vortices and most people go there for spiritual pursuits through its hundreds of hiking and mountain biking trails. I guess all I need now is to prepare everything and start contacting some hotels in there for us to stay, and check out some offers that they might be able to give us.

I seemingly have a fascination with Asheville because I can’t stop looking for information about it. I found out that Asheville was a primitive outpost in 1797. Frontiersmen such as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett traveled through in the early days. Asheville was little more than a crossroads of Indian trails on a plateau surrounded by mountains and rivers on all sides. The railroad transformed Asheville and Buncombe County into a resort and therapeutic health center when it arrived in 1880. Asheville became a Mecca for visitors searching for a mountain escape, its population climbing to nearly 30,000 seasonal residents in 1890. Something that I guess most Asheville private community doesn’t know.

Asheville also had no money to invest in urban renewal projects that were so popular in other cities following Black Monday. The magnificent buildings built during the boom years were spared the bulldozer as a result of Asheville commitment to repay its debt. This is why Asheville is a snap shot of what an American boomtown looked like during the turn of the century. It isn’t unusual to find quaint mom and pop shops in elegant surroundings. Anyway, enough about trivia, I think I should try to see if I could get a real estate in Asheville so I could live in there for good.

My grandfather was chatting with me yesterday via messenger and he was telling me how great his handicap scooters are. Well, he has two of them for some reason and he doesn’t want to let go of the older one because he said it has sentimental value to him. Anyway, he bored me to death by describing his disability scooters. He said his scooters have seats over two rear wheels, a flat area for his feet, and handlebars in front to turn one or two steerable wheels. The seats swivel to allow access when the front is blocked by the handlebars.

Mobility scooters are usually battery powered. A battery or two is stored on board the scooter and is charged via an onboard or separate battery charger unit from standard electric power. Gasoline-powered scooters are also available, though they are rapidly being replaced by electric models. But since he has two of the types, he has no problem with it because he could either go battery powered or gasoline powered anytime he wants. Then I got him busted with his descriptions because I saw everything in Wikipedia and I told him to stop copying stuff from the internet just so he could tell me what he has. It could have been easier if he just gave me the link… sheesh!