What is CROP WALK?

CROP WALK is an annual event which combines fun and fundraising to raise money for hungry people throughout the world.

I’m going to walk, you can sponser me at my crop walk sponser page.

Now I head back to the US. I’ve been the air for several hours and I’m again marveling how I can wake up on one country and go to sleep on another. I’ve had this feeling before, but I can’t quite capture the sentiment. Maybe it’s a sense of loss, that I have left a piece of myself behind. I have too, time, new friends, old friends, different ways of doing things. There is a sense of growth, of seeing the good things a society has to offer, trains, construction & design techniques, food, beauty. This was a reminder that I miss being able to walk down the stairs and to the corner of the block and being able to buy fresh bread like I could in Macau. Someday…. Last Thursday feels like a very long time ago. Major events really give one a sense of time. When I’m in the states, a week goes by quite quickly and last Sunday doesn’t feel like such a long time ago. But Last Monday I was in Switzerland, and with a land mark like that how can one get lost in ordinary.

I like to walk. One of my favorite things to do is wander through a city either on foot or a really old bicycle that’s worth about $2. Germany’s a pretty good place to do that. Today I walked around Karlsruhe, then hiked up to the hill above Durlach. There’s actually both a staircase and a train that go to the top, but taking a train up a hill is cheating and I didn’t find the staircase until the way down it’s rather hard to spot really. Every Friday evening Tomashof has a service for the youth called Praystation. I took a bus up and accidentally got off one stop to early, so rather than wait for the next bus I decided to hoof it since I figured I was less than a mile away. In actuality, I was probably closer to 2 miles away and as I arrived at Tomashof, the next bus went by. So on the bright side I stayed warm, got some exercise and something to talk about.