Midnight in Greece

My favorite in-flight movie is the in-flight map—the one that starts playing before take-off, a blinking white airplane icon that inches through the night across a digital map of the world. I find the constant frame of reference somewhat comforting—the visible proof of my own progress, and a clear reminder that while I am dozing in the cushioned, pressurized, climate-controlled, seemingly-stationary interior of a Boeing jet plane—I am, in fact, traveling halfway around the e…