http://kirkpatricks.org Northern California Kirkpatricks Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:12:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Center is located in Dr. Burleson's house right behind the hospital where Baba was cared for. It's been carefully restored and is a delightful place to spend some time. We stayed in an upstairs bedroom that was tasefully furnished and very quiet. There is another bedroom with twin beds for ... http://kirkpatricks.org/2009/07/05/the-heartland-center-prague-ok/ Since the accident happened at 10:15 in the morning and Altus/Ozark AR was some 400+ miles away, they must have started out in the early morning around 4 am. Some accounts have Baba urging Elizabeth to drive at high speeds. Regardless, they approached the hill going pretty fast and encountered ... http://kirkpatricks.org/2009/07/04/trail-of-tears-day-five/ Baba's party left Waynesboro and headed west through Tennessee and into Arkansas. about 3/4 of the way across that state, they spent the night at the Pond Creek Motor Lodge outside of Altus OK. The building(s) no longer exist but they were located on old highway 64 (now known as ... http://kirkpatricks.org/2009/06/30/trail-of-tears-day-four/ The group left Murphy, NC and headed into Tennessee. Near Chattanooga, they stopped to visit Ruby Falls, a tourist attraction on Lookout Mountain. Ruby Falls is in an underground cavern inside Lookout Mountain. They finished the day in Waynesboro TN at the Stonebrook Lodge (or Sim's Motel). The structure still stands ... http://kirkpatricks.org/2009/06/30/trail-of-tears-day-three/ On the second day of the journey, the group headed north towards North Carolina and stopped in Caesar's Head State Park to admire the view. The park is named for a rock outcropping at about 3300' that resembles Julius Caesar in profile. To tell the truth, we thought we could see ... http://kirkpatricks.org/2009/06/26/trail-of-tears-day-two/ On Tuesday, 20 May 1952, Meher Baba and nine close companions set out on a journey to the west coast. They left the Myrtle Beach Center and headed across South Carolina. They spent the night in Columbia at a hotel called the "Forest Court Hotel". The building has since been ... http://kirkpatricks.org/2009/06/26/trail-of-tears-day-one/ Internet access has been spotty and it's been hard to post. I'm at my sister-in-law's house and things seem stable, for now. To a person, everyone we've met have been wonderfully welcoming. It started with Charles, the guy behind the Hertz counter in Myrtle Beach. He was very helpful and researched ... http://kirkpatricks.org/2009/06/26/southern-hospitality/ Well, we're here, finally. Here is the Meher Baba Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach. The planes? 4 of them in one day. We got to the first leg (SFO to MSP) on BART. After that it was St. Paul to Orlando, Orlando to Atlanta and Atlanta to Myrtle Beach. Delays, ... http://kirkpatricks.org/2009/06/22/planes-a-train-and-an-automobile/ On the morning of Sunday the 27th of March, 2004, we were in South Lake Tahoe for a weekend of snowshoeing. We selected a route to an area known as “Big Meadow". It involved an ascent of perhaps 400 vertical feet to reach the meadow. It ... http://kirkpatricks.org/2009/01/04/brigittes-amazing-big-adventure/