What an intense week this has been! I will mention two reasons why. 1 – The US presidential elections It was pitch dark at 5:30 on Wednesday morning as I scrambled out of my bunk and logged on to CNN (Turkey is 7 hours ahead of EST). For the next three hours I followed, in …
Last week Janet and I celebrated our 40th. Like almost all of the 39 previous celebrations, we celebrated far from the place we were married. The journey away from Oregon and our closest friends/family began on our honeymoon and has never really stopped. Every year since we’ve been married we have celebrated our anniversary in …
This blog is different. For the past several days we’ve been back on SailingActs here in Finike, Turkey. That’s right, Janet flew back with me from my quick working visit to Virginia just last weekend for a bit of R and R following a flurry of activities at EMU over homecoming. In that time we …
This week I took my long anticipated trip to south-eastern Turkey. Because Syria is not an option for the EMU Middle East cross-cultural study program this spring, we decided to bring the EMU students to the area of Turkey just north of the Syrian border. I was there to check out the current situation on …
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It is Sunday morning and the waterfront in Volos is very quiet. Saturday nights are noisy, with thousands of people walking the wharf, but mostly sitting along the waterfront in the cafés that are jammed with people eating, drinking and socializing. Last night, on one end of the wharf a live band played Greek music. …