Travel, the unnecessary necessity

October 17, 2011

I wrote a guest post about how we are fascinated by difference, but travel actually ends up opening our eyes to sameness, over at Talking Turkey.

New stuff (after October 2011) is over at Heathen Pilgrim, a 1500-mile solo walk to Jerusalem. Heathen Pilgrim is the project I started when I finished writing ATWOS.

Heathen Pilgrim
- Rolling the odometer over the Tigris River
  I am on track to roll the odometer, knock on wood, with some friends in Portland over Memorial Day weekend. (By “roll the odometer” I mean walk my 1,000th mile — I have 869 so far.) That naturally got me to thinking, where will I roll the odometer in Turkey? So I consulted my route […]
- Descending to the Mediterranean – Konya to Silifke
  The leg from Konya to Silifke is about 160 miles, so it’ll take me 2-3 weeks to walk it. I estimate I’ll be passing through this area in mid-November. The route climbs from Konya’s 3350 feet to over 5000 feet, and then drops to sea level. Most of the drop occurs over a 25-mile stretch […]
- On the plateau – Lake Egirdir to Konya
  This leg is about 150 miles long, so it’ll take me two or three weeks to cover it. The first week or so will be a time of lakeshores and memories of St. Paul. I’ll spend a couple days walking along Lake Egirdir — it’s not a huge lake, but remember I’m walking, so my […]
- Batter up
  The boots on the left gave me 707 good miles, but I think that’s it for them now. They will be visiting that great big boot farm in the sky. Their torch will be carried now by the pair on the right. I will call this new pair "Manny." Say hello Manny. If things go […]