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 …
#5 If a tourist visits Turkey and includes an archeological site it most likely will be Ephesus, the fabulous ruins of an incredibly wealthy and powerful city familiar to anyone with some biblical knowledge. Ephesus is so popular that there are actual foot-traffic jams on the main street during the summer. The ports of ancient …
#4 I promised to share why the section of coastline in the area I am in between Antalya to the northeast and Bodrum to the west, is famous. Besides being the most beautiful coastline of Turkey, there are two other reasons for its fame: shipwrecks and pirates. These represent two distinct hazards Paul faced when …
It is amazing how quickly we organize our lives to become predictable and routine. A boat is kind of a miniature island on which a society of two people live, leaving it only occasionally for cross-cultural experiences in port. Every morning now, when the sunlight starts shining through the plexiglass hatch above our berth, about …