This is from yesterday, but my internet connection wasn’t too hot yesterday. Readers of A Tight Wide-open Space will recognize Milk Dud as one of the factors that brought me to Turkey the first time in 2003. He has since passed away, bless his...
Regular readers of this blog have been asking how my foot’s doing. I hurt it about a month ago and it delayed my entry into Denizli. My foot’s doing fine now, thanks. The week of resting in Egirdir did wonders, but the main thing that helped it was...
I may be posting a lot of photos about how beautiful it is out here and talking about how I can’t even walk a mile without someone loading me down with fruit, but don’t get me wrong – it’s not like I’m surfing an ocean of love out here. I...
For two days this ridge running along the eastern side of Lake Egirdir was my constant companion. I was happy to see it fade away today though, because that meant I got to turn inland, away from the lake and towards Konya.
This one, Officer Fatih bey, was an especially big jokester. He got a kick out of giving me a hard time. After sharing a few glasses of tea and some apples, the officers sent me away with a bag of apples. I’ve eaten a lot of apples today.
With today’s walk I passed the 20% mark — 265 miles (427 km) walked out of 1305 (2101 km) miles total. For some reason I was expecting a marching band, but all I have really is the next 80%. Guess I’m going to have to be cool with that.
A few people like some of the photos and asked how they could download the original higher-resolution photos — for printing, scrapbooks, etc. The originals are stored on Flickr. Almost all of them are 4000 pixels by 3000 pixels, which is large enough for a...
