We’re in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. All is quiet and well here. It’s a small, relaxing town. Our train ride here was about as delightful as an overnight train ride can be - we could actually sleep, aside from the border crossings. More later.

A two hour flight undid the entire two months of our eastward progress and brought us, happily, back to Istanbul. The eastern part of Turkey is incredible but it should be visited on its own, or first, not after a leisurely four weeks in the completely modern and clean western Turkey.
We were quickly drained […]

New album online from Cappadocia, Mt. Nemrut, and Lake Van.

I still can’t believe it when I look on a map and think about where we are. It probably wouldn’t be that big of a deal if we had flown here from Istanbul but the fact that we have the over 40 hours of bus rides that it took us to get here scratched on […]

We’re leaving Malatya tonight for Lake Van thanks to the 1 YTL coin I had in my pocket a few days ago. Actually, it just felt like we would be missing out if we didn’t at least go to Van, in the far east, before we left. There are actually a whole bunch of places […]