Hilmi joined me during yesterday’s stop at the tea garden near Ortaoren.
Hilmi is a sailor with the merchant marine, at sea for six months out of the year, home for the other six months. On his last trip he sailed to China, Indonesia, Portugal, Russia, and more.
Hilmi is home now, working the tea garden owned by his mother and uncle. I ran into his uncle later in the day, when his uncle came down the road for dinner at a restaurant I was hanging out at.