Finally, I began traveling again! A new chapter in my traveling journey as I have no job anymore. I will do all the new traveling like most other travelers do, with no airline help or interference. No more work schedules to shorten my stay anywhere, no more salary or covered ticket expenses. Welcome to the real world, Miha! Also, welcome to the free world!
So, appropriately or not, I began my new adventure with Abadiania, Brazil. Casa Dom Inácio de Loyola was established here by the medium affectionately called João de Deus (John of God) in 1979. It is a place where thousands of people visit every month. They come from other parts of this big country and from all over the world. As the place grows in popularity more people show up. The Oprah Winfrey show and CNN’s Sanjay Gupta report made the place even more popular in the States. People with medical, spiritual or existential issues, the curious and the reporters, all come to the small city of Abadiania, a place that was not much before the medium chose it for 
his Spiritual Healing Center. A lot of the people return over and over again. I have been here for almost a week and it is strange how relaxed and at ease I feel. My original plan was to stay a maximum of 14 days and now I think it will be way more. I also found out that the medium (born Joao Teixeira de Faria) will be 70 years of age on the 24th of June. How could I miss that celebration? Why am I here I can not tell for sure. I was intrigued by a story my friend Luis told me. He visited last year with his wife and somehow their experience caught my interest. I Googled and found the reports Oprah, Sanjay Gupta, and Dr. Jeff Rediger did and my interest grew. I was always interested in the mysterious and the unexplained but I have a very suspicious mind as well. My father was always questioning everything, even the visible, while I was growing up. 🙂 So for my left brain the excuse is that since the medium did his work for over 50 years and people come to see him and many return, something out of the ordinary must take place. I want to keep an open mind even if that comes as a struggle at times. I do know that I can not know, see, hear, smell, taste or touch everything that is around me. Even the senses I have fail me at times so how can I entirely trust them? And how can I believe I know everything that is, the little me, with limited senses and a brain that we all hardly use, maybe to most 5% capacity? What would it be like if we used the whole brain? Would we see with closed eyes and hear frequencies we do not perceive now?
Would we see the atoms that form our material world, hear the stars moving, our Terra rotating and hear her voice crying to us in despair? What else would there be to know and experience and how evolved our behavior would be? How would we then treat each other and how much would we care for money or material possessions? Would plastic and money become obsolete?
Anyway… I am here, and happy and relaxed. The days pass by and people around me are wonderful. I had a smooth trip from Florida, despise my stand-by ticket. Not only one seat to make it from Miami to Brasilia but one full row so I could sleep like a good baby the whole flight. I got out of the plane fresh and energized for my next part of the journey: the 3+ hour bus rides from Brasilia airport to Abadiania. I made no reservation ahead and walked into the least expensive place, to discover the sweetest, and most accommodating owners. They 
took me to the place they have on the other street so it is quiet and green. Fruit trees and flowers all over that yard and a small kitchen and laundry place for all of us to use. Do you want my secret? I do not have one. Maybe I was guided, maybe I was supposed to come here. 😉 The name of the place I stayed at I will happily share, so you too can benefit form the same. It is called Pousada Martins and it is on the main road towards Casa Dom Inacio, from the place the bus from Brasilia leaves you. In case you want to reserve ahead their phone number is 055 (62) 3343-1352 and the e-mail address is posadamartins@yahoo.com.br The address is Rua 04 Qd.16 Lt.02 Lindo Horizonte CEP 72940-000, Abadiania-GO, Brazil. They do not have a website as most of the places here do not but they do have internet connection and wi-fi. Yet, it is in the Pousada not at the house I stay at and they pay the internet for the time they use it. So, if you need to be on the computer a lot, you have a few other options: you might want to pay more for a room in a hotel; use one of the many Internet offices; take your computer on the street by the Hotel Brasil or Pousada Dom Ingrid, where the wi-fi has no log in; or go to a restaurant that has wi-fi. Rooms in Abadiania are basic and each owner charges as he or she dares. The rooms at the Martins are clean and basic too, but Dalma, the lady of the house, is one of the most genuine and kind of all people I have met. Her son, Alyson, speaks perfect English and the father, Jose, built the place and fixes everything. There is no ATM in Abadiania and as I ran out of Brazilian Reals they had no problem with me paying later and later each day. Finally yesterday I gave my ATM card and PIN to Alyson, which was going on the motorbike to Anapolis (closest town with an ATM) and I withdrew the money to pay them. What else can I say? Would I ever given my ATM card and PIN to anyone? No, never… that is not the normal Miha… not the Miha you would know in everyday life. So you can trust the Martins. XO