It’s a ridiculous floppy hat day! Will probably retire rfh at the end of our trip. It’s been a good soldier, but I’ve mashed it into my bag so many times, it won’t hold a shape anymore.

Confirmed there are no straight roads in Greece.

Almost died in a Greek taxi today. To set the stage, our driver, Pete, was an accelerator pulser (the worst). I was already nauseous, and Pete tells us about his love for Spiros Agnews (plural intentional) and Telly Savalas. Somehow this segues into him needing to show us all the photos of his friends on his phone – *while* he was driving. He was halfway into the left lane, oncoming car approaching fast, and he starts talking about how George Stephanopoulous is a “very very good man, he is from this area.” Never mind that GS was born in the US. I squawked, “CAR!”, so he turns around, hands us his card and says, “Don’t worry, I am a big boss.” Icing on the cake comment: “I have had many women. Different one every night. I had a woman from Boston. Now I look for one from San Francisco.” Omg. Let me out of this car.

We visited the ancient temple of Apollo in Delphi today. It was hot. So much sweating. Naturally, there were a few thousand stairs that needed climbing. More sweating.

Delphi was home to Pythia, or the Oracle of Delphi. Basically, people would travel to Delphi once a month to ask her questions and/or receive predictions. Of course you had to pay to receive answers to your questions. Will I have children? Who stole my sheep? Will Poseidon ever return my calls? Honestly, it all sounded a lot like ancient Magic-8 Ball. Unreal site, though. The views were insane.

Walked through the Delphi Archaeological Museum. Lingered a bit to soak up the air conditioning. Had a staring contest with a bronze statue called, The Charioteer. LOOK at this guy’s eyes. Pretty sure I will see them in my sleep tonight. Ken found a lion statue thingy he thought would look great in our garden.

Fun Fact: There are 1,700,000 olive trees planted around Delphi. Last pic: the lighter green color is all the olive trees.

Postscript : Gary says the Greeks make really tiny margaritas. Ken says the Greeks probably make really strange tacos, too.