After years spent writing about Greek mythology, I am finally on my way to get a real feel for the land. Since I am currently augmenting Decoding the Night with an online addendum of Herakles myths, I have decided to use that as the theme for my blogs. There are 48 characters in the labors of Herakles, each of which is related to a constellation. As it turns out, I will be travelling throughout the same lands that Herakles traversed over the next 48 days. One a day.
My own journey has had a bit of an epic start. The flight out of Moab was cancelled due to fog. The locals will recognize the irony of missing a flight from Moab due to fog, because we almost never have any fog in the desert. Chris, the EMT have me a ride with him to Grand Junction, where we were able to pick up a flight to Denver. I got to the gate in time to find out the Munich flight was delayed by 20 hours. As you can see the upside of this inconvenience is that the plane was nearly empty by the time we took off… after deicing, because a snowstorm had come in overnight. There may even still be snow in Athens, which came down as I began this journey. Stay tuned.
Decoding the Night 