Days Are Getting Easier

Turns out Lord Byron is a Greek national war hero; he died in 1824 at the age of 36 in Mesolongi campaigning in the Greek's first war of independence against the Turks. The town was important in that war but is a little frayed today.

From Mesolongi, we swung north on our march. One big hill, then onto a coastal plain in agriculture, and then over a small pass into the quaint seaside village of Amfilochia. Amfilochia sits on the Ambracian Gulf. Nearby, Augustus defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the Battle of Actium, clearing the way for Augustus to become the first emperor of the Roman Empire. I think Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor had something to do with it.

100 degree day but got 52 miles not-so-bad miles going into the wind. The first photo shows wind turbine blades - see car on left for scale.Read more