And then there was nothing.

(July 15, 2008)

Day 91


1:1
In Transit:Greece

Title: Waiting for Liftoff


Hello All.

Ally and I are back from Greece and we had an awesome time. I am two shy of having taken 1200 pictures over the last twenty days, and there's so much for me to sift through before I can start posting them. Regardless, I suspect that over the next few days I'm going to be dumping a lot of posts on you and I'll catch up by the end of the week. Hopefully. I don't know how much or how little I'm going to actually write in the posts, or how much I'm going to detail the trip. That could make posting take exponentially longer, but I also have a lot of memories floating around in my head.

We'll see how this goes.

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Some trip stats:

Of the ~448 hours we were gone, I calculated that ~100 of those hours were spent in transit. This picture was taken in the Atlanta airport while waiting for our 13 hour flight to Athens (Greece - not Athens, GA).

18 Days, not including the day-long flights to-and-fro
5 Hotels
6 Flights, including transfers
3 Taxis
5 Bus Trips, also called Ktels there, not including an infinite number of transfers. Their transportation organization is horrible. I'm sure you'll be seeing something about the Ktels over on Ally's blog soon.
12 Metro Trains, mostly round trips and backtracking (oops, we didn't know how to use them the first time we tried and thought we were at our final destination when we were actually back to where we had started.) throughout Athens
1 Ferry, poorly designed and cramped as hell
4 Pre-Dawn Trips. I don't even think I saw the sun rise that many times in a 3 week period when I was in architecture.
4 Books finished. I probably won't put them on Book Club because I think that's become defunct, so I'll briefly list them here.
Prelude to Foundation Isaac Asimov - Good. made me want to read the rest of the series
The Bear Went Over The Mountain William Kotzwinkle - Funny. Creative. Rediculous. Highly recommended as a quick light read.
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole - I loved meeting the characters and seeing them romp through such a rich environment. However, 350 pages into it, they seem to be saying all the same things as they had in the beginning and it was becoming slightly repetitive and longwinded. Still recommended. The writing is very creative and highly educated.
Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins - Again, the storyline was good, but once he started to wax his philosophical, religious, metaphorical and theoretical rants into the book, it started to get hard to read. The last 100 pages were a struggle. If Robbins would have just stuck to plot action and didn't run off on tangents and didn't try to make everything tie in to the grand scheme of the universe, I would have liked the book significantly more.


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