On the plane to Anchorage Because of the whirlwind schedule of this trip, we spent the first handful of days at Hotel Yiğitalp in Istanbul, and then everything but the last two on the road, staying in different places each night (well, we did spend two nights in Goreme and two in…wow, I don’t even [...]
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istanbul (not constantinople)
Posted in travel, Turkey, USA on August 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
what do you go home to?
Posted in travel, Turkey, USA on August 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On the bus to Pittsburgh Well. I did mean to update a bit more. I’ve just been…well, I was visiting a very good friend in Pennsylvania that I’d never seen in person before (met her six and a half years ago on an online forum–but it was a forum for Christian homeschooling teens, so yeah, [...]
do not fear for your dead; they rest here peacefully
Posted in travel, Turkey on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We visited the memorials to the soldiers who died at Gallipolli today. None of the cemeteries are very big, but there are hundreds of them; something like 500,000 young men died in that one battle. WWI was such a tragic waste of a generation. WWII was a just war, I think, considering Hitler was truly [...]
dancing the night away
Posted in Turkey on August 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Between Gelibolu and Istanbul Last night Ufuk, our guide, told us he was going to this concert with a lady friend of his (some chick who worked at the hotel; we kind of think they might be friends with benefits) and asked if we were at all interested. We kind of were (I personally wanted [...]
the little things
Posted in travel, Turkey on August 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I find this place fascinating–the Mediterranean is admittedly gorgeous (my dad would kill for the kind of visibility we had at our first boat stop), and the whole place is full of history–but I miss home, and to be honest what I really mean by that is the States (although I’m also missing Alaska’s weather, [...]
lost at sea, you and me
Posted in Turkey on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kalkan So, I managed to hurt myself again yesterday, which is probably no surprise; having one semi-functioning arm that I have to baby apparently makes me even more prone to injury than usual. Also Fellows events cause injury. That’s where I broke my wrist, after all, and I have a giant, painful bruise on the [...]
it’s like this whole ‘nother country
Posted in travel, Turkey on August 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Uçesi We saw an underground city yesterday, which was awesome but claustrophobic and also I cracked my upper back where a doorway came up and down at the same time. Stone hurts. (I keep bruising myself here, actually.) And whirling dervishes. Lots of bowing and some whirling. Still think people here are crazy for all [...]
leaving on a jet plane
Posted in travel, Turkey, USA on July 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
(Written en route to Portland, hour 2.5 of 20+ of travel) Well that was a fun time of crazy stress. I packed late, as always, because I had a bunch of trip- or arm-related errands to run, and then…I don’t even know. You’d think at some point I’d learn to, you know, pack early so [...]
