Welcome to the traveling adventures of Warren Music and Baba Spokie. Spokie and I are presenting some of our adventures here in the hopes to spread the word that this is an awesome way to experience life for anyone who is curious and perhaps planning on taking on such adventures.
Baba Spokie has helped me to understand that we should get out and experience more and definitely work less. Spokie reached a very heightened state of consciousness while meditating in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State in the United States. He realized that humanity as a whole is involved in a very out of balance condition of working way too much. This has profound effects on the totality of human existence. Spokie's message then is that we must bring balance back by having more fun, traveling, playing and in general just plain working less. The bottom line is working too hard just doesn't add up.
Spokie says that the human wheel is way out of true. He says that most spokes are way too tight. And that there are a few that are too loose as well. Riding on such a wheel just doesn't add up. For more information about matters that do not add up just see our page about it. (refer here).
In our bicycle travels Spokie and I have been in very cold and very hot weather. We have been in snow storms, harsh rain, thunder and lightning, crazy wind and of course perfect cycling weather as well. We have been as high as 4000 meters and have done plenty of coastal riding too. We have crossed high plateau deserts, mountain ranges, rolling hills and crazy long flats. We have cycled through great cultures and been completely alone with no other human contact. We have been chowed on by mosquitoes and flies, bitten by spiders and other bugs, frightened by animals in the night and spooked by crazy people. We have enjoyed great celebrations of life like the Peach festival in Penticton Canada, the Kings Birthday in Bangkok, Sivaratri in Varanassi and Holi in Kathmandu. We have experienced the Maoist rebels of Nepal, the Mulejos motor cycle gang of Mexico, the Mennonites of Mexico, and awesome Monks of Thailand. We have had some of the worlds best foods, and some of the worlds worst. We have slept on the ground, in tents and bivi sacks, in wonderful guest houses and hotels and we have stayed with friends we have made along the journey. Relatively speaking in such a short time we have experienced a lifetime. And we plan to experience more.