Word: aegean
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Most Memorable Moment: Sunset over the Aegean Sea with high school boyfriend during year off before college
...harmless enough fantasy for a kid living in middle-class suburban Houston, who was just as likely to become an astronaut as a sailor. When I grew up, I did go to sea?every now and then, aboard luxury cruise ships plying the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Seven years ago I went on a South American cruise along the coast of Chile, through the Strait of Magellan and on to Buenos Aires. It was a spectacular voyage in many ways, but I swore it would be my last: the problem was that the aspect of being...
...Santorini man - Santorini, the once vibrant island community in the Aegean north of Crete, where many centuries ago a mammoth volcano did, without question, destroy an advance civilization. That's certainly what Plato had in mind when he lectured on Atlantis. Or, at least, that's what I came to conclude...
This past summer, Packer and his wife took their children on a trip sponsored by the Harvard Alumni Association. Along with graduate students and other Harvard families, they listened to lectures on the Illiad and the Odyssey as they toured the Aegean...
...Mexico. Just three months ago, a Greek company, Aquarius Water Transportation, was in Houston trying to interest clients in pumping North American water into rafts the size of football fields and towing them to parched locales around the world--a method Aquarius uses to haul water around the Aegean...