Marina Edler, Alyssa Phipps, Chris Swain, Soren Mosher, Christina Teply, Anne Sellery, Jason Chinn, William Taylor, & Angela Driller at Priene, near Ephesus, Turkey
1989 - Trip Highlights
- Switzerland and a parking lot crisis
- first Nietzsche hike above Sils Maria by Arete Weston a beautiful morning
- boys love hike up to cave
- Bergamo and son, Jess
- Angela at the train station
- a spontaneous Italian track meet
- slugging it out in Salzberg
- Vienna and training in Freud's park
- Budapest and a good 1500 meters by Chris
- Belgrade without the flare of 1987
- the twenty-two hour train ride to Istanbul
- refugee check at 3:00 a.m., “somewhere?”
- off train for passport check
- racing up streets with luggage from train station to guest house just below Agios Sophia, the Sultan’s palace and the Blue Mosque old Istanbul
- Angela and Kristina tell of Byzantine art in Agios Sophia
- Alyssa and Marina watch a lamb killed by ancient ritual from their hotel window on final day of Ramadan
- “Homo Necans” comes alive
- Moslem blessing sung over the old village that night by muezzin
- ferry across Bosphorus to Asia, and back
- wild cab rides back after exciting dinner once back in Europe
- holy town and raw lunch
- Gallipoli and sober reflections on the young deaths
- a singer by tape just before crossing the Hellespont
- ancient Troy
- Angela presents a Trojan memento
- Aeneas would go with us from Troy toward Rome
- spectacular ancient Greek ruins along the Turkish coast
- beautiful rugs in a village with natural dyes
- discovery of Assos and the clear blue sea
- Pergamon --- impressive ruins on Acropolis and below, where the great medical doctor, Galen, practiced and even interpreted dreams
- black jackets
- the island of Kos and our jeeps
- water balloons and angry Greeks
- a surprise ending to our run through the park in Athens, as suddenly the 1896 Olympic stadium appeared and Chris went crazy
- boat ride to Italy under smoke stack for some of us; ship packed, very little space, but travelers cooperated
- don’t try and drive into Naples in the middle of the day
- Alyssa screaming at the drivers who were honking their horns
- I missed the party with the Italians that night
- Rome and the meal and essays by the statue of Bruno