OK, sorry to all my fans. I know you have been checking regularly.
Unfortanely, traveling and blogging do not go hand in hand.
I am safe and sound in Eceabat, Turkey, on a weeklong tour of immediately-southeast-istanbul regions including Ephasus, Pammakule, and Cappadocia.
Then my new good friend Lisa, the Auswie, and I will do some real vacationing in the way of CHEAP *have been spending MUCH dinero - ok, it's LIRA) in turkey so far. Serious good food, entertainment, etc. But in spain we are determined to rent a car, buy a tarp, and camp through southern spain and southern portugal, which I missed on my first way through, and then Morocco. Then come May we'll split up and I'll go to China.