Somewhere Else

We headed to the Greek island of Ikaria, a magical place where people live years longer than normal. An abandoned family farm overlooking the Aegean needed to be brought back to life. Who could resist?
Ikaria is a Blue Zone, where people live decades longer than normal. Numerous stories have appeared about the island on TV and in print because of a lifestyle that leads to such longevity., It was home to my wife’s family for generations until the wars of the Twentieth Century drove them to America. But the land, and a few crumbling stone houses stayed in the family, and the plum of it all, sitting on the side of a mountain overlooking the Aegean, was where we would begin our new life.
We would restore the house, get the land working again, harvest olives, swim in the Aegean and add years to our own lives … if we didn’t kill ourselves in the process.