The Hike of DOOM

The sun rose hot over Gazipasa this morning. Quickly, the morning shadows shortened and the air rose to its typical stifling temperatures. Rather than spend our day off within the frigid confines of air conditioning, we ventured out to unknown horizons with one goal...

Click here for unexpected fulfillment

My second day in Turkey was one long exercise in flexibility. Never since then have I begun a day so frustrated and confused, and yet never since then have I ended a day so happy with how things turned out. The first bump in my plans came the night before, when I was...

After a 10 hour layover in Istanbul airport which I am convinced was actually purgatory, I arrived safely at the dighouse in Gazipasa this past Wednesday. The most noticeable thing immediately upon arrival was the heat. It is a rather overbearing height. The kind of...

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....