1 The Village Life, Part Six, The Friendliest Neighbor!

The above picture is Peter, my immediate neighbor across the street. He is one of the nicest neighbors I have experienced.

Referring to my culture there is not many exemplary neighbors that surface except for a mature gay couple that I lived next to in Aptos in the Santa Cruz area. A couple of thirty dedicated years that were the kindness most friendly neighbors.

0 The Village Life, Part Five—The Crazy Syndrome.

From the countries that I have traveled, from Egypt to Turkey, the Levant, Greece and Bulgaria, one common phrase that is predominant among different cultures is "crazy". Several occasions while visiting a local individual would refer to someone else that they are "crazy". I never knew the english term "crazy" is an utmost popular phrase within the different cultures of the world.

2 Link Transfer—Corporate Domination.

I am mostly at the end of organizing this template except for new gadgets on the side bar and possibly in the footer. I am going to go with this new arrangement for the next year with the new domain and the template, at that time I will decided to stay with Blogger or move to self-hosted Wordpress.

All of the links are now on its own page. I went through all the site links I had, and, that proved to be an experience. Most blogs are powered on Blogger and a few from Wordpress.com, the free service. The blogs that stand out are powered through Wordpress—self-hosted.

3 A New Template Today.

Today I loaded my new template that I decided with. All the links that are on the footer for now, will be on a link page with its own subheading. I will be going through of the links, and any blogs that have been abandon will be in its own category, next to active blogs.

2 New Address and Template Searching.

Lately I have been busy searching for a new template for my travel blog. A few changes will be occurring. I bought a new domain name which is effective today, this blog will have the new address of enlightentravels.com, clearlyenlight.net will be forwarded in a day or so, and clearlyenlight-travels.blogspot.com will be forwarded, too. I have a couple of templates that I am closely looking at.

4 The First Snow—Bulgaria.

Today is the first snow here in Bulgaria. In the Bulgarian language snow is pronounced "Sa'nack, kind of like "snack" but with the emphasis in the "nack". When I first heard the word I though they were taking about having a snack. I love the snow, I think it provides a beautiful atmosphere, but not in a city where they use salt.

1 The Village Life, Part Four—Bulgaria.

This is a common site around many small villages and especially in the mountains in Bulgaria. I captured this picture while I was sitting in my car at the library on Skype. This Gypsy lady made a couple of trips down the street hauling large bags on her back.

There are some Bulgarians of the older generation that are completely hunch over at the waist. This lady could stand upright; however, from her demeanor, clothes, and overall look it is clearly noticeable that continual strenuous work and poverty are impacted upon the human psyche.

2 The Village Life, Part Three—The Pet View.

An analogous outlook upon animals and pets is slightly standardized within the former Ottoman Empire. Spending quality time in each country allows the educational process to distinguish the deeper dynamics of the cultural mind-set. After two years into traveling/nesting I have less of an interest to travel fast.

The mind-set and perception of animals are contrastingly different between the west, the middle east, and the east. The over sympathetic attachment among most westerners causes an imbalance that is a production of the ego. The example is of the organic farm I stay at in Greece for two weeks last May. Those English ladies expressed a bizarre displaced compassion upon their ten mutts, and the lonely little flower, in contrast to deprecating their fellow citizen. This mentality to animals is an ego justification that deludes the individuals reality.

0 Steve is Lost, The End, sort of.

Steve is Lost just landed in LA after traveling five years continuously.

This is his first impression of viewing LA:

And 18 hours after leaving my Bangkok home I arrived back in the good old USA. I do have to add though, flying out of Bangkok’s new International Airport and flying into LAX (Los Angeles International) it felt like I was flying back into a third world country. Man, the place was tired looking and worn out. Add the fact that sales tax is like 10%, what the hell happened. When I left it was like a little more than 7%. This was going to be rough.

THE END. Well, sort of.

What the hell happened?
Well Steve, the Wall Street crooks and bankers have fleeced the Americans worse than in 1929, and the result is to raise taxes.

2 The Village Life, Part Two—Bulgaria.

The city of L.A.

From the viewers eye the village life here in Bulgaria may not look inviting, however there are many positives along with the negatives. The pictures posted may look quite different from what you regularly view. Indeed, most westerns may view several countries as dirty. Some streets here in the village are lined with some trash, and the cow dung does not create a lovely scene of followers, although, within the homes that I have visited everything is kept clean and tidy. After traveling Egypt for five months my external view of an area has diminished, I am not really concerned about cosmetics of the external view of an area. Comparing my street view of the prior post, which looks more relaxing, the city look from these two pictures, or my street in Bulgaria?