Crash course in Western Civilization, Part 1
Wow! As much as I like a good adventure the past month I have been on a sensory overload. We have had some 20 ports of call in a one month period. My brain as well as my feet are tired. There were many changes from our originally announced itinerary because of weather but given the geography, good substitutions were found that provided much food for thought. I have taken literally hundreds of pictures and have little time to go back and curate them and to eliminate the many whoops, duplicates, and the what the hecks was I trying to capture. I did a quick review of the photos to help jump start my thoughts for this post and I was struck by the scale of the structures that have survived over the millennia. I did manage to get off a short Facebook post which I entitled: Myths, Legends, Gods, Goddesses, Saints and Emperors, Oh my……These were centered in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in an area where we have not spent much time previously so this was almost all new to me. There w...