GPS Signal Too Low

"GPS Signal Too Low"

The theme of today...and probably ever other day the GPS is switched on. It refused to find specific addresses but thank goodness it was willing to find city centers. By the time we neared the center of the cities, there were signs to guide us to the sites. But seriously, Lucy (which is what Ms. Harris named it) is not going to have a long and happy life if she doesn't do her job. She nearly gave me a heart attack this afternoon when she took us down a small dirt road with bushes on either side, which probably should have been a red flag, and suddenly we saw guards with machine guns standing in front of what looked like the entrance to a military facility. What did we do? I screamed and yelled to reverse, so Michael threw the Citroen in reverse and backed a quarter mile down the dirt road until he could turn us around. Then we burned rubber to get back to the paved road.

That little adventure nearly made us return to Athens instead of continuing to search for Mycenae. I wasn't sure if I was up for any more surprises on our road trip, but the nice Shell station attendant was able to give us directions to the ruins at Mycenae. Another success!

Our failure for the day - Hotel Antonios in Olympia. Um, I had fleas on me....