Occasionally someone asks why I don’t mention his or her name on this website. There’s a scene in the movie Saving Private Ryan where Matt Damon and Tom Hanks are swapping stories about loved ones. Tom Hanks tells Matt Damon about his wife back home. Matt...
Tonight I am in Osmaniye, a city of about 200,000 people at the eastern edge of the Cukurova plain. Early in December I said I was going to try to Couchsurf all the way across the Cukurova, and, knock on wood, it looks like I’m going to do that. Couchsurfing has...
Well, I’ve been on the road for four months. I’ve walked across 53% of the country so far. Here’s an update on some journey-related stats, and then I need your opinion on something for the second half… Distance walked: Total: 1109 kilometers...
Today’s walk took me from Cukobirlik (a few kilometers east of Yenice) to Adana’s Seyhan river. Now I’ve walked all the way to Ceyhan, two days (43 kilometers or 27 miles) from Osmaniye. I’m almost done with the Cukurova plain now. Dilek was...
