Killing Time – Beach & Old Town
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody […]
Bad Day at Blackrock
“Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.” ― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Go-Date: Day 38, Saturday March 2. Lesson Learned: Before leaping off the beaten path, make sure of your footing. We had heard storms had been bad in Crete with several […]
Brother, Chania Spare a Dime?
“What we glean from travelers’ vivid descriptions has a special charm; whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination; such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.” ― Alexander von Humboldt Go-Date: Day 37, Friday March 1. Strangers in a Strange Land The all-night […]
Last Ferry to Query
“I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.” -P. J. O’Rourke “There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one […]
Last Days in Athens
“You don’t leave because you have somewhere to go, you leave because nothing is keeping you there.” – Megan Leavey (2017) Go-Date: Day 36, Wednesday Feb 27. Lessons Learned: Find a spot where the locals eat and check it out. I don’t mean a bunch of 50 plus aged guys who wear Stalin mustaches and […]
WE ARE SPARTA & Dendra & Midea
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” -Will Rogers Go-Date: Days 29th & 30th – Feb. 20 & 21 Lessons Learned: Renting a car was a blessing. We’ve seen and done […]
Cheap Things to Do In the Peloponnese
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else.” ― Wendell Berry, A Place on Earth Go-Date: Day ……pick one – Various and sundry days, thru Feb. 20 Lessons Learned: You need not have an agenda, a list of locations, things to do, or UNESCO sites to visit. There are marvelous things to see just around the corner. […]
A Seaside Interlude
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. “ –Cary Grant Go-Date: Day 26, Sunday, Feb. 17 Lessons Learned: Sometimes picking a road with no destination works out well. Today, we took a flyer […]
Argos Fuck Yourself
Lester Siegel, Tony Mendez: [on the phone] So I’m sitting in Jerry’s this morning, having breakfast, a waitress comes over to me, she’s waving a newspaper and she says, ‘You see what those Canadians pulled off? Why can’t we do something like that?’ And I said to her, you know what I said? Tony Mendez: No, […]
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just […]