Shortly after arriving in a small town called Kazimkarabekir today, my final destination for the day, I passed by a construction site. I kept hearing shouts, but I couldn’t see who was shouting at me, nor tell if it was me being shouted at. Shortly thereafter...
This morning I crossed from Konya province into Karaman province. I only have about four days of walking in Karaman province, and then I’ll drop off the Central Anatolia plateau into Mersin province.
Ilke is a friend of mine from Istanbul. The temperature was pretty cold last night, and it seemed to have affected the ink in the pen; I think that’s why it was lighter than usual.
Couldn’t stop thinking about how to do this stretch in four days instead of five. But in the end, my tired body won out. So I camped by the side of the road Thursday night. There isn’t a lot of tree cover in this neck of the woods though, so I was scraping...
