Heat

Heat. My hometown of Grand Marais, Minnesota could never have prepared me for this heat. Grand Marais is a place where I have seen snow every month of the year except July. It is alway cool, mild, chilled, like a bottle of water pulled from the middle of the lake....

Coming Back

Back home on the Acropolis Coming from a small (very small) town in Missouri, I never would have expected to travel to Turkey, much less for a second time.  Last year’s experience can be summed up in one word “unreal.” I had finally done it, for I...

One hell of an office

As a general rule I am not a particularly emotional person and am neither impressed or moved by much.  However, there is truly something otherworldly about Turkey.  From the moment I touched down in Gazipasa I was struck by the raw beauty in everything around me....

A Returning

So here I am in Turkey, in Antioch ad Cragum, for a second time. It’s a funny thing because I wasn’t expecting to be back, I’m not going to be an archeologist and I doubt I’ll end up an academic historian for all that I’m a history major, but here I am. Why’s that I...

Looking out across the Mediterranean Sea from atop the Acropolis at Antioch, I couldn’t help but be impressed with the picturesque scene surrounding me. I’m in no way surprised that the ancient peoples living here chose this as the location for what would...

Something Out of a Storybook

My initial thoughts when coming to Turkey (besides the heat) were mainly about the beauty of the country. I come from a very flat part of the plains region in Minnesota, and this is the first time I have ever seen mountains, so they are just breathtaking for me. The...