To while away the time on the road I play the license plate game. In Turkey almost all of the license plates look the same, but the first number on the plate signals which province the car is from. The numbers are in alphabetical order by province name. For example,...
Last night, after a full day walking 40 kilometers (25 miles), double my usual, I rolled into the town of Beysehir, population 40,000. My back and hips were cramping up bad from all that walking. God only knows what possessed me to try to cram two days of walking into...
Near Lake Beysehir – Mustafa and his grandsons Selcuk (in arms) and Mustafa. They were taking a break from the harvest as I walked by. We shared three cups of tea, then they went back to work and I continued walking.
