Had tea this morning at a paint store across the street from where I stayed last night. Mehmet the owner, his friends Mehmet and a man whose name I can’t remember, the manager Ali, and their employee Yilmaz. The tea wasn’t ready for a while, but the...
I’m about 60 km (36 miles) outside of Konya. I thought there was a lot of holiday traffic on the road yesterday, but I was badly mistaken — that was nothing. About 2:30pm today it was like someone opened the floodgates and half of Konya came driving up...
Today’s walk went pretty quickly. There weren’t many places along the way to stop and rest, have a cup of tea, chat with the locals, etc. Actually, there were none. So I rolled into Sarikoy, my originally-intended destination village, more than an hour...
Along the road throughout Turkey are little "mini-mosques," usually uninhabited, but available in case anyone wants to stop for prayer. Mescits can usually be found at rest stops, airports, bus stations, and many gas stations.
