{"id":6541,"date":"2025-06-20T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2026-10-10T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:59:41","slug":"greece-2025-day-2-on-the-drive-to-mt-olympus-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2025\/06\/greece-2025-day-2-on-the-drive-to-mt-olympus-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece 2025 Day 2: On the Drive to Mt. Olympus National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ll write more about our hike in Mt Olympus National Park later on, but Dave and I have really enjoyed playing the “license plate game” here in Eastern Europe. This was at a rest stop on Route 1 , the main highway between Thessaloniki and Athens. Lots of cars from Serbia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine on the road.<\/p>\n

It’s also cool that at this rest stop we were parked under a roof of solar panels — when it is 35C\/95F out, the covered parking was quite nice.<\/p>\n

One final thought about driving in Greece: Dave and I are grateful for our two years of driving in Seoul. We have *definitely* needed those skills on this trip.<\/p>\n

#greece #mtolympuspark #europeanadventure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll write more about our hike in Mt Olympus National Park later on, but Dave and I have really enjoyed playing the “license plate game” here in Eastern Europe. This was at a rest stop on Route 1 , the main highway between Thessaloniki and Athens. Lots of cars from Serbia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine on … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t