Friday morning the sky was clear and there was a majestic dawn over Mount Shasta. After morning meditation first sunrays painted the snow on the mount with rose colours. And with the rising sun the mount put on a light scarf of white clouds…
Later we drove via Medford airport through wooded areas to Crescent City at the Pacific, where we stayed for two nights at the hotel Lighthouse Inn near the harbor. The Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park in the north-west corner of California is preserving several groves of old growth Redwood trees. When walking along these giants, we felt in a dream-like state – I was reminded of the Lothlórien (meaning “the dream flower”) of Tolkien’s land of the elves of the “Lord of the Rings”.
Saturday morning, I had a walk along the harbour, where some sea lions were resting on some swimming pontoons. Later, we went to the historic Battery Point Lighthouse. It was just low tide and so we could walk over by feet.
We then drove along the rocky coast and saw more impressive redwood forests and, on a meadow, some moose on “Elk Meadow”.
Sunday morning, we returned to Shastina, relaxing in Chuck’s house. The others of our travel group would stay there during the May Call seminar; I went to the McCloud hotel with Marc on Monday afternoon. He was my room-mate during the seminar. Marc is from Seattle Theosophical Society and we had intense exchanges during our stay.
The hall was now well decorated, ready for the May Call celebration. And by and by group members arrived – many hugs and warm welcome greetings. Very intense days were about to start.
