Today TeknoKulis (“Tech Wings – technology’s shortcut”) did an article on the walk. The article is in Turkish but it basically says, “There’s a guy walking across Turkey, he’s going to carry a cell phone with a data connection...
In case any of you are traveling to Turkey with a foreign-bought cell phone and will be here for more than a week, click here for a description of how I registered my cell.
"Beans and rice," this is another daily staple and one of my favorites. White beans in tomato sauce with a few green peppers and chunks of meat, ladled over a pile of rice. This is another one of those perfect foods I could eat every day. I’m kind of...
My walk across Turkey starts on the morning of Saturday, 1 September, in the Aegean port town of Kusadasi. If you’re able to make it to Kusadasi, please join me for the start of the walk. Just so you know, I’ll probably be a little nervous that morning,...
Boys get circumcised later around these parts. It’s a big deal, a treasured rite of passage, involving ice cream, frilly clothes, and big parties. Personally, I’m a big fan of having that kind of work done earlier. At some point you just don’t want...
Left to my own devices, I would eat Iskender pretty much every day. Cubes of pide (bread), doner slices (meat shaved from a rotating vertical spit), tomato sauce, butter, and yogurt. Iskender, by the way, means Alexander, as in Alexander the Great.
Denise Waters teaches a 4th grade class at Norman Rockwell Elementary school in Redmond, a city on the east side of Seattle, Washington. For years it’s been my pleasure to count Denise and her husband Tim as good friends of mine. Denise and I have been planning...
A big thank you goes out to the new Kickstarter supporters over the past couple days for driving the campaign to 52% of its funding goal. The Kickstarter campaign will be running until 30 September. When it closes, I will have already been walking for one month. Most...
I love listening to the call to prayer. It is the sound of a man reaching for god, and a reminder that mankind reaches for god wherever he is. Near the apartment I’m house-sitting in Istanbul there are four mosques. At call to prayer, all four mosques compete...
Sunset from a rooftop bar on Istiklal. The bar, by the way, was named "Topless," but it’s not what the name might suggest. You’d have to go over to the next neighborhood for that.
A newspaper in Reedley, California (one of my hometowns), did an article on the walk recently… Article in Reedley Exponent (Photo by Doug Hoagland / The Exponent) “It’s a liberating thing knowing that we don’t need to be afraid of our own...
I love the line, “…my first reaction to his plan was WTF!” http://turkishtravelblog.com/walk-turkey/ Thank you so much Natalie, I love the article! I especially loved hearing you describe your reaction to the trip.
