You are not logged in. [Login] Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Speciality Forums >> Astro Outreach, Clubs and Star Parties Previous   Index   Next   Flat   half meter Postmaster Reged: 05/05/04 Posts: 12517 Loc: Great Lakes Re: Ohio Never Ending Star Party Eterna Thread, Pa       07/18/08 03:35 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply:   Dave, are you volunteering? Thanks, Steph! Diane, here is a word picture for you (not quite 1,000 words!) We're here in Athens trying to make up for the 7 hour time zone change plus 12 hours of trying to sleep on the plane. (I'm fine, but with 6 others in our group, I'm reminded that not everyone adjusts to travel as well.) We took the subway into Athens from the airport, bags in tow, and then, following the Internet directions to the hotel, walked the final 15 minutes. We came to the end of the road and found no hotel. Regrouping, we sat down at a street cafe to a dinner of gyros and pizza and discussed our predicament. Apparently we were having a vigorous discussion because a nice spunky old Greek lady passing by understood that we couldn't find the hotel Zafolia (not an international chain hotel.) In broken English she repeatedly said she loved Americans (did the University of Michigan tee shirt make it that obvious? Together with the 7 suitcases, yes!) and that Americans are the best people in the world. Not quite knowing what to make of this full of energy, 4 foot 10 inch tall Greek lady, we engaged her in discussion. She told us to take the #18 trolley (connected to the overhead wires, not the #18 bus, mind you ) and, counting us one by one, insisted that we take 7 of her trolley tickets (refusing our repeated attempts to pay, saying she was not a seller of trolley tickets.) Still bewildered by her generosity and enthralled by her charm, we continued to listen to her stories. After a while she volunteered that she had been to America once -- to Rochester, MN, at the Mayo clinic, and that she had a medical problem but now she was feeling fine. Finally we understood this saint of a lady! She was passing forward her good fortune at being healed in America. What an amazing first impression of a foreign land my 4 kids had just received! -------------------- Gary Collins I3 (Thin Film) Image Intensifying Eyepiece Coronado Maxscope DS 90 <0.5A w/BF30 152 mm f/8 TMB/A&M Carbon Fiber APO; f/5 with 4" Borg ED Field Flattener/Reducer 20" Obsession/OMI Mirror/Servocat/Argo Navis First Light for the 30" Obsession at BEOTS! 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