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"Whether talking about mystical visions or the rhythms of everyday life, Erickson becomes the spiritual quest into a series of thrilling transformations." - Publishers Weekly (starred review). From her child years with an Iowa plantation, Lori Erickson grew up to travel the planet as a article writer focusing on holy sites - journeys that led her with an ever-deepening spiritual search. In Holy Rover, she weaves her personal narrative with information of twelve pilgrimages. Her outings give Erickson the opportunity to reflect on her Lutheran upbringing, her flirtation with Wicca, and her admiration for Tibetan Buddhism. A trip to the treatment shrine of Lourdes is intertwined with the storyline of her son's serious illness as a baby, while visiting Thoreau's Walden Pond, mixes with ruminations on being a writer. Along the way, Erickson encounters religious leaders, like the chief priest of the Icelandic pagan faith of Asatru, a Trappist monk at Thomas Merton's Gethsemani Abbey, and a Lakota retreat director at South Dakota's Carry Butte. Both irreverent and devout, Holy Rover includes images of holy sites round the world considered by several of the country's leading travel photography enthusiasts. Travel article writer, Episcopal deacon, and writer of the Holy Rover blog at Patheos, Erickson is an interesting guide for pilgrims wanting to take a religious quest. Her audiobook describes travels that changed her life and can transform yours, too.
