The meaning behind your blog name.
My blog name is a little ironic, but all with good intention.
108
Buddhist literature describes as as having 108 defilements, or feelings that lead to affliction. I “crave” to diminish all defilements, and I believe that each time I travel and experience something new it helps me begin to dissolve one or more. It’s all about perspective.
A list of the 108 feels of which cause suffering.
| ostentatiousness | grudge | gambling | ingratitude |
| dipsomania | ambition | dominance | faithlessness |
| manipulation | stinginess | pessimism | hostility |
| abuse | debasement | sexual lust | sarcasm |
| humiliation | jealousy | gluttony | unruliness |
| hurt | cruelty | unkindness | laziness |
| envy | indifference | negativity | furtiveness |
| sadism | enviousness | derision | falseness |
| high-handedness | know-it-all | rage | aggression |
| rapacity | effrontery | disrespectfulness | hard-heartedness |
| eagerness for power | lying | insidiousness | self-denial |
| inattentiveness | contempt | wrath | haughtiness |
| greed for money | seducement | vindictiveness | insatiability |
| voluptuousness | excessiveness | censoriousness | dissatisfaction |
| egoism | ignorance | hatred | greed |
| impudence | imposture | cursing | imperiousness |
| lecherousness | callousness | malignancy | torment |
| intolerance | blasphemy | shamelessness | irresponsibility |
| obsession | prejudice | arrogance | violent temper |
| garrulity | dogmatism | presumption | intransigence |
| oppression | prodigality | lack of comprehension | obstinacy |
| pride | conceitedness | delusion | quarrelsomeness |
| self-hatred | violence | vanity | hypocrisy |
| stubbornness | baseness | pretence | mercilessness |
| disrespect | ridicule | masochism | tyranny |
| capriciousness | deceit | anger | discord |
| calculation | unyielding | desire for fame | deception |
Klicks
I was in the U.S. Army, Hooah! And in military terms, a “klick” means a distance of 1000 meters (one kilometer, or .62 miles). Since it represents distance, and I have an affinity for the Army, I used this word in my travel blog because it is a part of me, and I felt it, aprepro.
“We’re going up river about 75 klicks above the Do Lung bridge.” – Apocalypse Now
Around the World
I want to travel the world! Experience, do, meet new people. I have goals to fly, bike, walk, drive, bus…hundreds of thousands klicks around the world, and to diminish 108 feels which cause suffering.
108KlicksAroundtheWorld – is a traveler, humanitarian, experiencer and just a girl lovin’ adventure.