Thank you to The Gym attendees last night. You were a big help in figuring out how to tell three stories I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around: Dazed and Confused and two that don’t have names yet, Çardak and Beyşehir. Once again, I’ve got...
This Sunday at The Gym: In the first couple weeks of the walk I was learning the differences between villages of 500 people, 1500 people, and 4000+ people. I don’t know if that is interesting information to anyone but me. So Sunday at The Gym I would like to...
Here’s this week’s assignment for my “English On The Road” students. The assignments, as you can see here, are free. The service I offer is not to provide the assignments, it’s to be that person’s “personal trainer.”...
Wow, that was an amazing gym session tonight. Thank you so much Darcy, Emrah, and Donna. I was hoping to come away with a story about the Polish guys. Not only did we get that, we found stories I didn’t even realize were there: “Girls, cars, and...
Dear Kickstarter backers, 1. Book writing update: I’ve written 10,000 words of the first draft. I imagine the book will have about 60K words total. I write 2,000 words each day, Monday through Friday. At that rate I will finish the first draft by the end of June....
Reminder: If you are in Istanbul, come to The Gym on Sunday, 19 May at 6pm. Starbucks in front of Şişli’s Cevahir AVM. This week: we’ll be talking about a couple Polish guys I met who were walking from Poland to Jerusalem. I am trying to figure out if...
Thank you to the folks who came to The Gym on a fine, sunny Mothers’ Day evening. We had a nice storytelling and Q&A session, and as a result of your questions I will flesh out my encounters with Drunk Snake and the Moldovan Girl in the opening chapters....
Reminder: If you are in Istanbul, come to The Gym on Sunday, 12 May at 6pm. Starbucks in front of Şişli’s Cevahir AVM. This week: we’ll be talking about the first couple days of the walk, in and around Kuşadası. I am trying to figure out how to turn that...
Below is a project update to the Kickstarter backers. I am reposting it here in case they see this first… Project Update #18: Finished the walk across Turkey, writing the books now Posted by Matt Krause Hello all, Just a quick update on the Walking Turkey...
I am writing a book about the walk across Turkey. Listen to stories about the walk, and in the process help me work out the kinks in the stories and decide what does and does not go into the book. Sundays at 6pm, Istanbul time. Starbucks in front of Sisli’s...
This morning’s task was to find a 3 km stretch (3+3=6 km round trip) where I could run for half an hour concentrating only on my feet and the surface in front of me. Important: no vehicular cross traffic; early morning access; hard surface (no soft grass). Fresh...
“If your goal is big enough, it doesn’t really matter what it is. Simply by pursuing it you will change your own life and the lives of many people around you.”...
This was a solo walk, but there were hundreds of people along the way who helped me, and their combined efforts and support were greater than the work I, just one person, put into it in order to get it done. No list of people who helped me will ever be complete, but...
A couple kilometers from the Turkey-Iran border, I broke three bottles on the road. This first one didn’t break easily, so I had to throw a rock on it…
Sunday Salih and Gül and I joined some of Salih’s students and fellow teachers for a barbecue on Lake Van. The teacher crouching in the front row is wet because moments before he had jumped into the lake to retrieve a stray volleyball.
