Maybe it's the ouzo, maybe it's the heat, but there is something about Greece that quietly sucks brain cells from skulls.
Hell, even before I arrived I was already saying things like: "Greece is cheap. It's like Europe's Mexico."

And then there was the time I met a beautiful stranger while shopping in...

Days in the Middle East: 76

Days without a haircut: 85

Countries: 6

Friends made: 59

Homes invited into: 5

Times: robbed: 0

...sick: 0

...food poisoned: 0

Ripped off by cabbies: 3

...with help of Israeli border patrol: 1

Dates with Muslim girls: 3

Marriage proposals by Muslim...

It's getting late in Shiraz, Iran, and I am afraid if I tell the taxi driver I am American, I may not make it home. If I have learned anything over the last 4 days, it is that there is a good chance I will be taken to his home, introduced to his entire family, and fed dinner. And I am NOT...