Writings
of your desires
and joys.
It's time to rest, relax, get in touch with your inner self, be stimulated, or just enjoy some quiet reading. This page provides links to a number of esseys, poems, short stories, travel narratives, books, and other writings available for your enjoyment on this site. And when you want to go farther afield, check out my list of connections other places on the Internet.
Some links point to Mike's Works and Words pages, others point to works across the internet. As you look at these items, many have a button on the bottom to return to this Writings page. With the others you have to use your browser's Back to return here.
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Our books |
Travel (
Pilgrimage,
Spain,
Italy,
Germany,
India,
Ethiopia, Eritrea,
Other) |
Esseys |
Coins |
Guest writers |
Photo Gallery |
Futures |
Notes |
Photography page
Our books
- Do you Have a Match? Bocadillos, Poppies, and Pilgrims - My book on my walking the Camino de Santiago in 2003 where I met Petra.
- Encounters on the Road to Jerusalem - our book on our 23-month walking pilgrimage from California to Jerusalem.
- Germany to Rome: Our Pilgrimage - our book about our walk from Germany to Rome.
- Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life - our book about walking our life path.
- Sicily's Historic Coasts - my book about Sicily, its history, and my month-long visit in there 2000.
- Ethiopia: Travels of a Youth - my CD-ROM book describing people and places in Ethiopia and Eritrea during the late 1960s.
- Money Meandering: An Introduction to Numismatics - my CD-ROM book with 87 articles on coin collecting.
- Axum: Coins and Places - my video of coins and places associated with ancient Axum, Ethiopia.
- Books by Marty Metras. My brother Marty has books on his 2007 Camino walk, a family tree of the Metras, and his Random Thoughts.
Travel
Pilgrimage
- Walking East - the web journal of our walk from California to Jerusalem starting 16 Jan 2009.
- Pilgrimage Creations - our web site on pilgrimage along with our books, slide shows, workshops, and our own pilgrimages.
- Pilgrimages we've walked - an introductory page to pilgimages and writings about the ones we have made/are making.
- Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life - a book of meditations supported with photographs about walking the pilgrimage of our life, the ultimate travel.
- What is a Pilgrim? - a concise and informative pamphlet on pilgrimage in India by Swami Veda. It is a good read.
- Camino de Santiago (see Spain for more)
- Rome pilgrimage (see Italy for more)
Spain
- Camino de Santiago home
- 2010 on the Camino - February to April posts on Walking East pictures page.
- 2003 Camino pilgrimage home - pages originally written while walking the Camino.
- First thoughts - during preparation.
- Ready to go
- From Pamplona
- From Ventosa
- From Bergos
- From León
- From Molinaseca
- From Melide
- From Santiago de Compostela
- From Finisterra
- 2003 Camino Insights.
- Thoughts for your Camino - ideas to think about as you prepair to walk the Camino or a similar pilgrimage.
- A walk along the Camino de Santiago - a poem that tries to tell something of the spirit of my pilgrimage.
- Some words accumulated on the 2003 Camino.
- 2007 Camino updates including a walk with my brother for five days.
Italy
- Sicily's Historic Coasts - a book about Sicily, its history, and my month-long visit in there 2000.
- Sicily in 2000 - some early notes mostly in the book above now.
- Germany to Rome: Our Pilgrimage - a book about our walk from Germany to Rome.
- Rome pilgrimage - our walk from Kisslegg Germany to Rome in 2006-07.
- Notes and lessons from the walk over the Alps to Fidenza - August 2006.
- Fear of heights is really fear of the unknown.
- Take things with ease as they come.
- Live NOW and accept that the Universe will provides.
- Via Francigena
- Fidenza to San Gimignano - December 2007
- VF San Gimignano to Rome - January-Fegruary 2007.
Germany
- Workshops and slide shows on pilgrimage walking (Seminare und Diavorträge über den Jakobsweg) :
- A different way of life - an essey on the differences between living in small-town Germany and small-town America. This is the seeds for a book.
- Germany to Rome: Our Pilgrimage - a book about our walk from Germany to Rome.
India
- Our 2004 trip to India by container ship.
- Our 2004 travels in India, the first time we were there.
- Our 2013-2014 travels in India. What is a Pilgrim? - a concise and informative pamphlet on pilgrimage in India by Swami Veda. It is a good read.
Ethiopia and Eritrea
- Ethiopia: Travels of a Youth - a CD-ROM book describing people and places in Ethiopia and Eritrea during the late 1960s
- Axum: Coins and Places - a video of coins and places associated with ancient Axum, Ethiopia.
- Italian-Eritrean Railway and Tramway - an external web site.
- Eritrean Railway and Ropeway--Ralph R. Reinhold's site with a wealth of detailed technical detail, narrative, and pictures.
- Eritrea-Ethiopia bibliography - many books. Last updated 2002.
Other
- Walking East - the entrance page to web journal of our walk from California to Jerusalem through 11 states and ten countries.
- Trains on Currency and Stock Certificates, a picture essey.
- Ma's scrapbook of our Black Hills Vacation in 1956
Esseys and poetry
- Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life - a book about walking our life path.
- Pilgrimage
- The Kite
- Stages by Herman Hesse
- Do it Now
- An Eagle's Morning Flight
- the Granart Road Cemetery
- 2002 Musings
- The path
- Writing
- Right and wrong
- The individual
- Transportation
- Canyon walk
- Swami
- Echart Tolle
- Dr. Phil
- Miscellaneous
- 2002 Bibliography
- Wind turbines
- Year in review pages
- Christmas letters
- A statement on Iraq before the invasion
Coin articles and books
- Money Meandering: An Introduction to Numismatics - a CD-ROM book on coin collecting.
- Trains on Currency and Stock Certificates, a picture essey.
- Axum: Coins and Places - a video of coins and places associated with ancient Axum, Ethiopia.
- The Elgin Coin Club Newsletters
- The Eritrean Nakfa
- 1998 ANA Summer Seminar
- A Vacation in the Springs
Guest Writers
- Fly ever free - a collection of the poetry of Graeme Petterwood
Sometime in the future?
- Four months in India
- Four months in Africa
- The Via de la Plata pilgrimage
- A week in Cusco and Machu Pichu
- More slide shows of movies
- unt...and...na...Quien sabe