Back row: Jenny LaPlante, William Taylor, Robin Pendoley, Sophia Grebremichel, Jake Levine,
Front row: Erin McAdams, Jen Ponig, Amy Glenn, & Amy Hawkins
in Freud's office in Vienna
Front row: Erin McAdams, Jen Ponig, Amy Glenn, & Amy Hawkins
in Freud's office in Vienna
1995 - Trip Highlights
- we found her hidden within luggage at the Lubeck train station
- quaint island of charm, then the Baltic sea and the recovery of a ring
- Berlin and a great night track meet and party with advanced German athletes
- Robin finds his running destiny
- on top of Hitler’s buried bunker
- the voice of the Captain in the forest
- Prague with the castle, the old square and statue of Hus, then at night the gift of entrance into the Bethlehem chapel
- Mozart and violins bring forth Absolute beauty by music under the pulpit of the brave preacher who paid with is life for independent thought
- a haunting drive on the way to Auschwitz
- a police station before the death camp, no English, out of a black and white film
- the train track to the gas chambers
- how can one stand within one and escape?
- Crocow that night, a festive meal in a traditional restaurant
- the statue of a poet in the square
- attractive countryside driving through Bratislava, a tall, engaging waitress of stimulating conversation
- alone in a Roman amphitheatre along the Danube before Vienna
- Freud’s city
- St. Stephen, “The Kiss,” the museum of the couch, a recorder and music of Beethoven and Mozart where each died
- let's sleep in the Alps, aware that war is over the peaks to the south
- a salad bowl
- want to stop in a place called Venice?
- Florence with David and a villa and hill repeats
- Robin takes a wonderful run above the city of Renaissance
- Rome
- always Bruno
- and a waiter by the statue who recognizes us each time
- after dinner Jake locates the theatre by the Campo Di Fiori where Caesar was stabbed
- a meadow above Delphi and a new Arete home
- relay races in stadium the next morning
- Mycenae, the roof over the restaurant, and the early sound of the birds once more
- Nemea and a five mile pilot run so that Dr. Miller can test the route for a “mini marathon” as part of his ancient games
- where is Poulaki?
- she went toward Mycenae?
- the Greek island of Samos and an old hotel at the port
- a sandy beach with Turkey just a quarter of a mile away
- a swim out to an island
- an expensive hotel and illegal night time diving
- no van, have to use cars
- separation at an intersection; panic because passports with Mr. Taylor; no scheduled location for lodging that evening
- an hour or so later Mr. Taylor returned in his car to the intersection and discovered the students sitting on a curb playing some instrument
- a night on cement near an Arete swimming site near Bodrum
- across to Rhodes the next day and the walk to the hotel with Jen carrying a huge back pack
- we were a day early, and there was no rooms available
- the showers for the service personnel were made available, and the washing machines
- a wonderful birthday night on cement outside the booked hotel; within the walls, so we could sleep without fear of the police; that’s two nights in a row on cement
- the flight to an island called Karpathos in a very small plane
- way, way out in the Mediterranean, toward Cairo, Alexandria
- a beautiful beach, then screaming for Erin to make it down in time for the boat
- Olympus at the north end of the island and the village that some scholars say still speak a dialect of Homer
- women in traditional costumes in village
- a couple of rooms high above a thrashing sea below
- a hike through the mist to a chapel above the world
- the Acropolis in Athens with the sun coloring the marble in reds on a quiet Sunday morning
- the private dinner table outside on the roof of the Astor restaurant with a brilliant view of the Acropolis on our final night
- and Jake cried