Friday, May 11, 2012

Journal to Montenegro

I am preparing for my adventure to Montenegro...I have been told of all the hairpin turns and twists to visit beautiful architecture cut into the mountains. The Ostrog Monastery is carved at the top of a mountain and getting there is turn after hairpin turn!.  Tradition dictates that you walk up to the Monastery barefoot and when you are finished....walk down barefoot. I will attempt that. I have booked a night sleeping on the cold floor with a blanket and a pillow....just as the Monks do.  The bones of a saint are buried there, and great healing takes places in this sanctuary.  People from around the world come there to feel closer to God just as my protagonist does everyday. I will walk in her shoes, sleep in her bed and become her more intimately, just as I do when I write her life.

This is going to be one exciting journey.  Montenegro is only one destination.  The other destinations have more crazy turns in common....and I have a confession!  I really don't like to fly, and I hate heights! So the way I'm thinking is I better get over it really fast, because there is no way to do this trip without "feeling the fear, and doing it anyway!"

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