I grew up an avid reader of National Geographic magazine. I spent hours poring through its photography and prose capturing beautiful landscapes, strange and exotic animals, and people so very different than myself. I've no doubt that this viewport into a world so much more vast and complex than my own little sliver had a role in my lifelong love of travel.
It was National Geographic's Expeditions offering that rekindled my desire to travel to Egypt, and it is with them that we have tried several times to do so. Through no fault of theirs or ours, those plans have fallen through; this latest due to rising conflict in the region and a warning by the State Department not to travel there.
Jen and I pivoted, initially to Italy, to a trip mostly by train from Venice to the Sicilian coast. However, it wasn't possible to move our deposit from the Egypt tour to that one (something to do with the different types of trips not being under the same financial roof), and Greece was. So, Greece.
Makes it sound like a compromise, but it was always near the top of both Jen's and my list of destinations. An easy decision.
The trip is scheduled for the end of August to mid-September, and will take us from Athens down into the Pelloponaise, then up into Thessaly, before ending where we started. We'll visit Corinth, Mycenae, Olympia, Delphi, and Meteora, as well as the vacation town of Nafplia. So many sites, so much history. It's the trip of a lifetime, Reader, whether you've read your Edith Hamilton or not.
