A Celebration of Mundanity

Breakfasts continued to involve olives, cheeses, tomatoes, bread with honey and jam. What turned out to be a morning favorite was the dry feta drizzled with vişne re

I lied, we had one more historic site in store for us. We stopped just south of Demre, in the ancient city of Myra to visit the ruins of a large Lycian amphitheater. Myra's Greco-Roman theatre is the…

We woke at 4:00am to catch an uneventful flight out of Kayseri to Antalya (via Istanbul, all domestic flights route through Istanbul). Straight from the airport we made our way to one of the many…

Today's first stop was Imagination Valley. Here we scrabbled all over the eroded rock formations and looked for shapes in the rocks. The first huge obvious rock formation was in the shape of a camel.…

First stop today, the famous site of the Three Fairy Chimneys. These "fairy chimneys" are also a product of the geology unique to this region. The thick layers of easily eroded Tuff topped by the…

Our first stop today was Atat

Today was a long traveling day. We hopped on a bus and drove from Istanbul to Ankara, the capitol of Turkey. We drove over mountains, through fields of melons, pumpkins, passed by fig orchards and…

Morning and Mark is feeling less miserable, still some symptoms but feeling good enough for a bit of an adventure. We broke off as a small group and took off across the Marmara Sea on a ferry to the…

This morning we awoke to find that Mark was not feeling well at all. Since the morning destination of a museum was on tap, Mark decided to sit this one out and we would regroup at lunch to see how he…

I was awakened quite suddenly by the 5:00 am call to prayer. Five times a day all the Mosques across Istanbul broadcast the mu'adhdhin's adhan, the call to prayer chant over loudspeakers. I stood in…