What do you do on your last day on Crete? Absolutely nothing. Or, in more optimistic terms, more of the usual. I would post a minute (video) of Andrew reading Lonely Planet’s rundown of Sofia to me in the bus station, but I’ll spare you- mostly because he said “Are you really going to post that?” and I thought maybe he was onto something with me leaving it offline. I will however share our last photos stopping off to say hello to another friend of Susan and Jerry’s before we left. Above, she’s laughing about a pair of kangaroo balls falling on her head. They have been fashioned into a bottle opener and are kept on a shelf behind the bar. Below, Andrew and I are getting served our last obligatory shot of raki. Jerry assured me that I could just say “no.” But it was our last day, one last time to do as the Cretans do…
As my life has been pretty transient throughout the past ten years, oh right, and this last year especially, I pine for the day I have my own abode. It doesn’t have to be much. Just as long as there is enough room for my Indian beaded wall hangings, Masai shukkas, Chinese dragon, and whatever else I might decide I cannot live without on this trip. Walking into Susan and Jerry’s house made me think that all of my (mis)adventures finding the perfect souvenir and then a post office to send my finds home has been worth it. Everything had a story behind it. It felt like being in a super cozy museum. One where you could wear the Masai beadwork if you really wanted to, and if you sweet talked Susan into letting you. I had to take a few pictures of their place for inspiration when we move into our own home in the not so distant future!
Jerry dropped us off at the airport late in the afternoon. We arrived in Thessaloniki in the evening and decided to go ahead and hop on an overnight bus to Bulgaria to get it over with, instead of leaving the following afternoon and spending the entire day on a bus. These decisions are always a toss up, as much as I like getting bus rides out of the way, they are getting harder and harder to sleep on.