My solo journey of the heart and World
Jodi left early in the morning and it was just Debbie and I left. Debbie did some shopping while I did some work and worried about my dentist appointment later that afternoon. Our favorite taxi driver, John, picked me up and took me to the other side of town to the dentist I had made an appointment …
After Paros, we were taking the ferry to Piraeus port just outside of Athens. We got in the queue for the ferry and saw it slide in. It was way bigger than we imagined. After the people and cars and cargo disembarked, there was a line up of semi trucks that expertly backed into the hold, sometimes …
We packed up our things and headed towards the metro station to go back to the airport to catch our flight to Crete. We had noticed that the weather reports were predicting unusual rain and storms during the exact 5 days that we would be on the island. Of course. As we were about halfway between our …
I met Debbie at the same metro station on her day of arrival at about noon. The bed that was left was the sofa bed and although it was in a private room, it left a lot to be desired for comfort. Poor Debbie would not get a decent night’s sleep until we got to Crete. Jodi and …
The day Jodi was set to arrive, I took a taxi from the hotel where I had stayed for 3 nights to the Airbnb apartment we had booked in a different part of the city. Our 5th floor apartment with 2 bedrooms and a sofa bed was right on the border of the Syntagma and Plaka neighborhoods …
My flight was at 6:00am the following morning and I had worked most of the day and thought I would go to bed early in order to get up and walk to the airport (under 10 minutes) to be there at 4am. It was a small airport but I was somewhat concerned that maybe my bags …