Camino de la Luna

<p>“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”  So said Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his 1933 Inaugural Address when he first became US President.  It was a year when almost 1 in 3 were unemployed in the US a year when a Jewish pacifist called Albert Einstein left Germany to work at Princeton a year when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and opened Dachau the first concentration camp.</p><p>The money changers as Roosevelt called them had created a Great Depression. </p><p>“Happiness” he said “lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement in the thrill of creative effort.”  Having left Sri Lanka I was about to explore Malaysia Borneo Bangkok and ultimately visit the almost mythical Kingdom of Bhutan reported to be the Happiest Place on Earth. </p><p>I was about to confront my own deepest fear.</p>