San Francisco, California
The
Last Steps, But Not
Well, it is done!
After a sensational trek over the Golden
Gate Bridge, (and I love moving over bridges with a water flow underneath) with
a mere 1.7 mile expanse, the last few steps on Irving Street to the Pacific
were accomplished. Dear friends,
Vaisesika and Nirakula from San Jose, also came to join us for the last four
miles from Masonic and Page to Irving and the Lower Great Highway, the path of
the original Jagannatha Fest a half century ago. https://youtu.be/pjn7c1uqhkU
When finally we pressed footprints in the
sand to beeline our way to the ocean’s waters and offer our obeisances to that
beautiful body of salt water, we took the opportunity to reflect on all the
highlights of a collective six month trek.
I asked both Hayagriva and Marshall to add to the memories of our recent
past as the small group of us stood with sand under our feet and an unusual sun
above our heads. It was a total of 3,550
miles or 5,713 kilometres.
The U.S. walk entailed spanning—and in some
cases edging a corner of a state such as Michigan and Wyoming—the balance of
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana,
Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California and Hawaii. It also included a walk-through, at the
pivotal juncture, Butler, Pennsylvania, where our guru, Prabhupada, spent an entire
month in the city of his sponsors, Gopal and Sally Agarwal, before registering
his cherished ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, in
1966.
We hope that Prabhupada is pleased with the
walking endeavour—a pilgrimage, a padayatra. I hope Krishna’s smile is broad. Maybe Uncle Sam is also delighted that some
seeds of bhakti (devotion) have been
planted along the way.
May the Source be with you!
6 miles
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