Anne Glenn, Jennie Allen, Cathy Fong, Nalon Smith, Amy Glenn, William Taylor, Amber Wilson, & Franciso Guevera
in front of the oldest pyramid in Egypt
in front of the oldest pyramid in Egypt
1997 - Trip Highlights
- what a flow of history from Israel to Egypt to Greece to Switzerland to Verdun to Paris
- Israel and the dome of lasting beauty
- a night above the ancient city of Jerusalem
- no barefoot Bedouins to race, but the loss enabled us to see ancient Megiddo and contemplate Armegeddon and look out across the plain of good and evil?
- a cautious walk through the narrow streets of old Jerusalem
- the wailing wall, then up above to the golden dome of Islam
- Massada, alone, looking out over the bare land of Israel and the Dead Sea
- flight to Egypt
- the old Victoria hotel of colonialism with big, large rooms, then rushing to the window to better hear the call to prayer
- a vacant lot where the hotel of "The English Patient" had stood
- Egypt and the friendly honks as we crossed a busy intersection
- Apollo XIII music on the van tap deck as we approached oldest pyramid
- looking out on the Libyan desert, toward where Kathryn……
- the flight to Greece over the blue Mediterranean sea; how come Amy ends up in the cockpit with the Greek pilots?
- Athens and the inspiring run in the 1896 Olympic stadium
- the Acropolis and Cathy reading how it sways
- digging for the earlier stadium at Nemea
- blood and the rush to the hospital for Mr. Taylor
- sleeping on the Arete roof at Mycenae
- back in the early morning for some of the stitches to be removed at the hospital which was under the glittering fortress of ancient Argos
- off to Sparta
- another hospital, Amy victimized by heat
- the goat lady appears in mountains on way to Pylos, a woman to remember
- a moment at Nestor’s palace overlooking Pylos
- the Arete hill at Olympia with powerful new music by Alexandros, the Olympic track visible through the pine below sail to Ithaka with Odysseus
- cabs dropped our luggage out at the cove of Athena and Telemachus
- the island of Odysseus and the blue, clear water
- a swim, readings from “The Odyssey,” then up for pizza, then down by flashlight,
- a sleep on the beach of myth
- Jenny and I paid with lasting insect bite
- the forum, Bruno, Moses in Rome
- Jen of Arete ’95 surprises us at dinner
- Florence and the villa
- Then the anticipated David
- hello to Nietzsche on a beautiful morning hike
- a climb well up alongside the Matterhorn
- Verdun and the hill of Mort Homme
- Paris
- sleeping in the same hotel where Freud stayed in 1885-86
- avocado and peanut butter rolls in the Tuilleries
- the evening presentations, dinner, then the spontaneous dance on the river Seine