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Aug 7, 2006
"To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and be transformed is to be a pilgrim." --Mark Nepo
Dollar a Day Walking Pilgrimage
It isn't easy living on a dollar a day, even when you're trekking through poverty-stricken parts of rural India. Just ask Nipun and Guri Mehta, who held themselves to that budget while taking a walking pilgrimage through the country last year. Six months into their marriage, this Berkeley couple left with a one-way ticket to journey India by foot. Eating wherever food was offered, sleeping wherever a flat surface was found, and profiling everyday heroes encountered along the way, theirs was an unscripted spiritual pilgrimage in search of the good -- both inside and out.
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