At the Parthenon, the ancient Greek marble temple built on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, between 447 and 432 BCE — the golden age of Athens under the leader Pericles. It is a masterwork of ancient art, math, and political power that still shapes how we build and think today.
It has now been 18 months since I placed my belongings in storage and set out to travel the world full-time on a four-year mission: to explore and better understand the world around me, to identify potential places to live if the United States falls further into fascism, and to finally visit the destinations I have dreamed of seeing for much of my life.