Saturday, 6 Dec 2008 | Views [551]
on our 2nd day in istanbul we met no godfathers and avoided all other male attention by making faces and whiny sounds whenever someone talked to us. it worked! salesmen would just snap their mouths shut before a full sentence even got out. we were ... Read more >
Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 | Views [553] | Comments [2]
We arrived in istanbul yesterday afternoon via ferry from yalova. we wanted to sit in the front of the ferry so we could see the city as we approached the dock, but our tickets had assigned seating and we ended up in the VERY back row facing the opposite ... Read more >
Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 | Views [441]
operation blowout (the team of shannon, marshall, mon and myself and named for our inevitable gastric distress experienced nearly every morning on this trip) has now been officially dismantled and monica and i have now commenced travel manuevers under ... Read more >
Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 | Views [516]
hello! most importantly i must say happy thanksgiving everyone! we are definitely missing home and our favorite holiday today. we are now in kas on the turkish medıterranean coast. we arrived in antalya after a particularly horrible overnight bus ... Read more >
Friday, 21 Nov 2008 | Views [696]
on the morning of the 18th we headed out of nigde for the ihlara valley and cappadocia. we started our hike into the ihlara valley from a small village at the top below a big snowy mountain (mt. husan i believe). this valley, or canyon more like it, ... Read more >
Monday, 17 Nov 2008 | Views [526]
we left for antakya, turkey in the afternoon of the 18th. just outside of aleppo, some sketchy sweaty guy hopped on our bus at a run (it didnt stop, only slowed a bit) with bags and bags of unknown stuff. julie, our trip leader, informed us that he ... Read more >
