Patricia Taylor, Parker Simms, Morgan Banks, Renee Johnson, Mary Baldwin, Rory Kuykendall, Andrew Hagen, Steve O'Mara, & William Taylor in St. Petersburg
2001 - Trip Highlights
- Paul Wilkinson was at the St. Petersburg airport to move us through customs
- Arete ’83 veteran was our host in Russia
- St. Petersburg of blue canals, spectacular palaces, writers, musicians and the ballet
- a train station and the arrival of Lenin in 1917
- Angelica tells of the red scarf for Lenin in her youth
- Moscow, the Kremlin, the churches and Red Square
- the sober walk in black marble tomb by Lenin
- the red stair case discovery
- drive to “Vatican” of Russian Orthodox church“cover those bare shoulders”
- flight to Athens
- Greek movie actress prefers to talk with Mr. Taylor
- rock music invades Arete
- “1896” Olympic stadium
- run along top row leads to glorious sunset behind Parthenon
- Mary crashes van
- stuck in front of the Astor
- nice, safe, well planned van stop off highway
- to Mt. Olympus
- up the sweet little trail toward the crags of Mt. Olympus
- Rory tells Mr. Taylor of his respect as the older one reaches a rest stop, and Mr. Taylor tells Rory, “……….”
- Sleeping below the gods and goddess on Mt. Olympus, then the boys climbed high before dawn
- Nauplion and the illegal swim by Steve and Renee
- Olympia and the great finish between Parker and Morgan
- off to the new island of “Corelli’s Mandolin
- long run in heat by Rory, swim by Steve
- then early morning crossing to Ithaki and Odysseus
- a drive high up on the mountain to where some danger lurked
- Tessa likes danger
- “being is where danger is” said the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers
- by sea to Italy
- nasty German youth
- slept below ancient ruins of Elea, where Parmenides had a school
- Parker continues to sleep on roof of van
- Arete was able to walk to the center of the Coliseum arena in Rome
- “the Gladiator”
- a vivid reflection
- sunset over Florence
- lengthy time, interest, in Freud museum in Vienna
- the death camp by the Danube
- the vulgar, festive atmosphere way up in Hitler’s Eagles Nest
- Morgan, “give me my hat”