Voices
How lame would it be if she’d
managed, against all odds, to send
a signal and I overlooked it?
This anxiety over finding
Kristin’s message had subsided
somewhat by the fall, when my
girlfriend and I headed to Greece
and checked out for awhile. One
day, as we were putzing around
in Crete, we started talking to
this woman who was raving
about having just hiked Samaria
Gorge, the longest gorge in Europe. It happened to be a couple
hours away from where we were.
We decided we should probably
check it out, so we bought bus
tickets to go the next day.
That night, I had a dream about
Kristin. I don’t remember much
about it, except that I could see
her vividly and I woke up feeling
good. I kept thinking about it on
the bus ride the next morning. I
told my girlfriend about it too,
and said how surprised I was to
finally see Kristin in my dreams
as we rolled around in Greece, so
far from home.
Samaria Gorge is a wild scene.
You’re in a remote part of an island with hardly anybody around,
just ambling your way down a
mountain and through a rocky
valley for 10 miles. It’s six hours
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of breathtaking scenery and concentrating on where you step so
you don’t bite it on loose pebbles.
That’s where my mind was
when, a few miles in, we turned a
corner and came across a couple
of cairns. They’re little piles of
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