Day 95

Friday April 23rd,

Today was a day of traveling. It started off by waking up at like 6:00 to trek off to the Train Station. My feet were still wet from the day before and wandering around the wet dock. Wet socks is no fun, i realize why the Marines take such care of these precious articles of clothing. However, I still managed to sleep on the train for most of the trip until Thessaloníki. I did wake up occasionally to gaze upon the beautiful Greek countryside. Greek really is like California, its got the farms, the vineyards and the mountains. Its really pretty.
When we arrived in Thessaloniki, my feet were still wet and it sucked. However, not wanting to spend money on a taxi and not wanting to spend our six hour layover in the train-station, we decided to go explore the city. We got to the seaside and were amazed. There is a nice boardwalk that runs right along the city and doesn't have any fence or anything separating the city from the blue sea. With the clear sunny sky and the mountains in the background it looked picturesque. We grabbed lunch and went for ice-cream afterwards. The White Tower where the Janissaries were massacred was closed for repairs, so we didn't get to check that out. After using some down time to check the internet we walked back to the train station and got our sleeper train. This sleeper train was really sweet and Ryan and I got our own little cabin room. We spent the time looking out the window and watching South Park. It was awesome. It was actually really comfortable and I feel asleep traveling across Western Thrace to Istanbul.