Tomorrow (Thursday) I’ll be hitting the road again. Looking forward to it. Big thanks to the town of Horsunlu for being such great hosts while I nursed my foot back.
A handful of people have asked me who the “Today is for…” people are. You know, the ones whose names I write on a whiteboard and dedicate that day’s walk to. A few of those people are Kickstarter backers, but that’s not why they’re...
Last night I played my first game of Okey, a local variation of dominoes. Only had a vague notion of what I was doing, and I had a lot of help from my fellow players, but I managed to win a few games. Could barely recognize what a winning hand was, though, so for all...
Am back in Horsunlu for a bit of rest. Got an unexpected invitation to join Huseyin and his family for dinner. In attendance were Huseyin, his wife, his cousin, his cousin’s fiancé, his grandmother, his aunt, and another family member, a small boy whose name I...
I have been doing this (walking Turkey) for barely a week, but already I’m realizing there is no “typical” afternoon — every one is different in an important way. Here is a description of one evening last week, the night I stayed at the...
Terry Henson Kaymak, of the blog Adventures in Ankara, asked me about the cold winter weather in Van, one of the highest cities on my route. Here is my answer.
Yesterday some pain showed up in my right foot. I’ve been walking a little more than I had trained for, and my body is warning me to rein it in a bit. So today I am hopping a minibus back to Horsunlu, that village I was in a few days ago and made such good...
Joy from Turkayfe wrote a follow up article about Day One on the road. We both got a kick out of the local press mistakenly identifying her as my girlfriend. Excellent article Joy, and I love that shot you got of me climbing out of Kusadasi with the bus behind...
