Simon Says

  Departure Cacophony of sound Frantic preparations Spontaneous decision A journey to take Upcoming departure Gifts carefully chosen Companions selected Break camp at daybreak

Beginnings Come, join us on a journey as we travel with old friends: despite the various twists and turns we know how this one ends. But, haste not to the ending; our tale's not yet begun. We'll start at a beginning and end when story done. Our tale is not quite history (nor is it make believe) There's some poetic licence yet truth you can perceive. So, for our  storytelling we travel back in time to a point in history when Rome was at her prime. It's not that ancient city on which we now converge but a town, remote and distant, on an eastern desert verge: Darkness: the blackest blackness! Fragmented sparks of light illuminating  dwellings into the deepest night. Aside the town, a rocky place and here we find, stargazing magi, watching the heavens, portents and signs appraising. A great excitement permeates the astrological air as seasoned watchmen of the night stand opened-mouth and stare. Their charts abandoned, gaze transfixed, euphoria increased. Before their eyes h