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  • It's rainy in the Sunshine State today. Kerr, Jeanna, and I stood on the beach and watched the rainstorm march across the waves until it was slinging droplets into our eyes. We made an impromptu umbrella out of Kerr's bo…

  • My new favorite word is "lapidary."

  • You know, I hate having to leave so much out of these accounts! I begin to appreciate the amount of culling required of journalists, biographers, and historians.May 21Most cities in the Hellenistic world were located nea…

  • It's not every week that your basement floods, you and sundry siblings are ordered into the back of a police patrol car, you acquire flipflop earrings, prepare weather reports for a radio announcer, and discover treasure…

  • May 20Somehow, within minutes of climbing - or dragging ourselves - up to the ruins of Priene, we all discovered the breeze at the edge of the cliff and the beautiful unfolding of land at its foot. The city still feels l…

  • May 20Miletus, Didyma, and Priene - this was a memorable day. When all the ancient cities start running together in my head, I remember Miletus as the flooded city with the big theater and the little frogs. Those with mo…

  • I thinkthat I'm addictedto earrings.

  • May 19Day 1 of cucumbers and tomatoes with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Also the day that Emily Callihan (my oh-so-patient roommate) had to turn on the shower for me, and saved me from breaking all my toes by chanting “…

  • My turn to link! Mr. Callihan is posting pictures and sundry wise and relevant observations of his own on his site. (Hooray!) Don't confine yourselves to any one account of the trip: there's so much to tell that nobody c…

  • May 18We shared Jim’s reverence for Greek yogurt after our first Greek breakfast. They like their yogurt thick. Seriously thick. The texture is like ice cream. It’s eaten with honey, and odd as the combination sounds, it…

  • May 17According to my watch, it was just past 3 am when I arrived in Athens. According to an electronic display in the Athens airport, it was just past 10 am. Confusion persisted until sometime late the following day, wh…

  • They're not the only ones smiling!

  • Two and a half weeks is a long time! It's Tuesday evening, I've been home since Friday night, and I'm still trying to catch up with everything that happened while I was gone. In fact, I'm still trying to catch up with th…

  • I'm back!!!!!!!!!! I have so much unpacking and reorganizing to do that my head is spinning! Well, it's spinning anyway with the seven hour time difference and the fifteen hours of plane travel yesterday. I was wid…

  • Happy June from Athens! :) I'm flying out from the Athens airport around 1 tomorrow afternoon. This is your last international update. Over and out . . . .

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