My darling Aphrodite, I love you. Will you marry me? The handsome Greek restaurant owner on Santorini pleaded with my eighty-year-old mother as they line-danced to bouzouki music in a late-night bacchanal on a terrace overlooking the Aegean. My mother loved dancing, charming men, and living in general. After being widowed for the second time in her late seventies, she kicked up her heels and, in many ways, relished life to its fullest. During those years we traveled together frequently and had our own high-spirited odyssey around Greece.Dancing on the Wine Dark Sea

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November 30, 2006, International House, UC, Berkeley, 7:30 p.m.Global travel, if not tourism, has existed since the original hominids traveled out of Africa and spread throughout the world. Today, technology, knowledge, and resources permit large numbers of people to explore the furthest corners of the globe: the Libyan desert, Tuva, the Mongolian steppes, the Amazon rainforests, Antarctica, and even into the final frontier, outer space.  How are these journeys affecting our world, each other, and ourselves?

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