Lazy Sounio

Our lazy days in Sounio continue. We spent the morning swimming and playing on the beach. For lunch we drove around to the port of Lavrio, we're meals are a little bit cheaper than the resort we're staying at. The buffets are incredible, breakfast is included and kids eat free for dinner but I still think 40 euros for us adults is a bit steep since it doesn't even include drinks. Still, the view of Poseidon's Temple on the hill is incredible and it feels quite secluded here with the national park right up the hill.

I just finished a meeting with a company we're doing an integration with in Mountain Time, so 9 hours earlier in their day than we are here in Greece. There are crickets singing as I type this and the Temple is lit beautifully across the bay. The world really is just a pale blue dot. Tiny. I'm sitting a few kilometers across the bay from a structure built 2500 years ago discussing API docs for the implementation. Seamlessly. It's a dream I've had since I was a kid. Home is everywhere and nowhere. I miss the warm embrace of Southern US humidity, but even Maxwell recognized the similarities between California and Greece. This is a place we've never been and yet it's home. The limestone with it's caves and sinkholes feels like Tennessee and the ancient settlments therein could be Mesa Verde in Colorado.

The sea urchins here are black rather that the Pacific Coast purple ones I'm used to. Limpets, snails and hermit crabs are the same though. It's odd to climb down sandstone/conglomerate cliffs to tidepools forms in pumice and marble though. And beautiful. The kids boat plans have only gotten bigger since we've been here. The yacht culture is strong. The resort has a bay for mooring and we see boats come and go all day and night. I can't help feel a bit like Steve Martin in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It must be some sort of scam to be here right?

It's not, of course. Greece is no more expensive than Florida once you're here. Both have good seafood. Greece has better wine. Florida has better wildlife (manatees are pretty impossible to beat). Travelling off season you see a lot of old people and families with small children in both. Here they just mostly speak German. Or French. Or Russian.

Tomorrow we're planning to drive to Sparta and then stay at an AirBnB in Kalamata.