Context is everything. So when the free walking city tour began and our tour guide pointed to various buildings and palm trees along the sea front walkway, I thought I knew what she meant by “these things are very old.”  I had just come from Athens where the Parthenon is some 2500 years old.  And […]

I just received an email from the official race photographers that the photos they snapped of me are available for purchase. As is typical, I photograph about like I run – awkwardly yet repeatedly. I think I have enough shots below as it is. Not much to say here other than to point out how […]

I’ve made it to Cyprus… and my bag flew free! Tomorrow I’m doing a walking tour of Larnaca so I’ll wait to start posting Cyprian pics until then. In the meantime, I thought I’d backfill a few stories from Athens. I was originally going to try and fill in the past few days’ missed photos […]

I was too cheap to ask Apostolos Tours to book my cab to the airport, feeling they were quoting a high number. Lyft and Uber aren’t a thing in Greece, but there is a taxi hailing app similar to those services called BEAT. I used them to get back from the marathon finish as I […]

All we are is dust in the wind, dude. — Ted “Theodore” Logan. When traveling through time in a phone booth on a most excellent adventure, Bill and Ted collect historical figures for a final exam History presentation; the first one they encounter is Socrates. Not sure what to do, Bill advises Ted to “philosophize […]

Welcome, welcome, welcome to Run Kevin Run Dot Com!  Just enough time for a quick recap of the race…with more to come later. Stephanos, a trainer and new hire for Apostolos who was poached from the Athens Marathon organizing committee, gave a course preview and run down last night. He accurately described it as a […]

I should know better than to be early.  It only makes me upset when appointed times WHOOSH past like a bullet train without stopping at the station. My anal retentive need for punctuality and timeliness, a curse from childhood that will plague me to story’s end, isn’t conducive to group travel.  Compounding the general disconnect […]

What a difference a moment can make. I was having a pretty good day, enjoying the sights and history of Greece with the tour group… and then I went to dinner solo. It wasn’t that I was eating alone; I actually preferred that as I needed some time away from folks. But it wouldn’t be […]

Now? Not yet, Zorba. I’ve arrived in Greece and it’s humid. I hadn’t planned on that. The orientation meeting which was supposed to be an overview of the week but was more an intro to Paul, the guy who runs the Apostolos Greek Tour company.  He’s been doing this for 25 years and it’s truly […]

The original. The authentic. The odyssey begins. *** I wrote the above last night as I was packing up for my flight today.  I had plenty of time in my Lyft to check on delays because my driver got lost twice picking up me and another passenger.  Then he complained we were both going to […]