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“I navigated a couple of sharp curves and then saw another meaningless sign in Cyrillic, so I kept going. And then I was in the entrance of a tunnel. And then I was driving in the tunnel at fifty kilometers per hour and it was pitch-black all around. I was driving blind! I couldn’t see anything ahead or on either side of me. My stunned brain processed the fact that the first thing I had to do was to stop the bike, so I slowly braked while disengaging the gearbox. We passed the town of Katerini, where the road widened and had been improved with shoulders and guardrails along the waterside… I was just about to go to ninety kilometers per hour when we went around a curve and there, straight in front of us, was an enormous mountain with a snow cap. Charlie yelled, “Holy shit! Look at that!” I was awestruck. I knew it was Mt. Olympus, the tallest mountain in Greece and the home of the gods… “Where else could the gods have lived?” I asked.”

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Book:Driving Toward Destiny
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Tim Scott

Tim Scott is a United States Senator from South Carolina, a member of the Republican Party. Born in September 1965, he has a diverse career background in business and law. Before entering politics, Scott worked in finance and real estate and earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina. As a state senator, he advocated for tax cuts and business development policies. In 2013, he was appointed to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American senator in American history. more

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