In the winter of 1889, Reeve led eleven friends on a trip through the Mediterranean including stops in Paris, Turin, Brindisi, Cairo, Baalbek, Damascus, Istanbul, and Athens via water, rail, donkey and camelback.  The group booked passage from Thomas Cook and Son for $710 round trip departing and returning to Paris.  On their journey, the travelers visited an astounding number of sites, both contemporary and historical (Pyramids of Giza, Suez Canal, Hagia Sophia, and the Parthenon) acquiring souvenirs and purchasing antiquities along the route.  Reeve published his memoir of the trip, How We Went and What We Saw, in 1891.