I stared out at all of the boats and yachts on the vivid sapphire blue water and wondered – what the hell am I doing here on the rocky ground when I could be gently swaying on a boat? The Turkish Mediterranean coast is some of the most lovely in the world. Most people who […]
I woke up doubting everything. How am I going to carry a 30-pound pack over the course of 2 weeks climbing up and down hills – and a mountain pass of 3000 ft? I can’t do this. It will be impossible. But I got up, brushed my teeth, and went anyway. I arrived in Antalya […]
Each week brings some new scenery and location for me – that’s just the way I like it. If you want to follow where I am real time – then each Friday I will post 5 (7 this week!) of my Instagram photos from the current week. Some weeks I may be traveling somewhere exotic, […]
I’ve been wearing my hiking boots around NYC all week. I wear the clunky, unfashionable boots out to the grocery store, to go get beer, to run to the pharmacy, and to the apartment I’m staying in. After 7 years of being away from NYC have I finally lost my fashion sense? No – I’m […]
Four weeks in Istanbul means a lot of photos! Here are some of my favorite more obscure shots from some familiar and not-so-familiar parts of the city. When I can travel slowly and have the time to really live in a city – I enjoy getting out and seeing the local life outside of the […]
I’ve slept in some really weird places – trains, gers, tents in the middle of nowhere, cars – but a little apartment in Istanbul was the strangest I have experienced to date. In fact, I’m sitting in the living room of the shared apartment now and I can hear the drilling – a constant hum […]
As we wandered through the market I was finally able to ask all of the questions that had been consuming my brain in Turkish markets. What’s this? How do they make that? What is this used for? When do people eat this? And the list goes on and on. Whenever you explore a new country’s […]
I looked at the walnut at the end of my fork and inspected it closely. It wasn’t just the nut part that we normally crack the shell to get to – but instead, it was the whole shell poised on my fork prong. How in the world did the Turkish make this impenetrable nut into […]
My hands vibrate, the noise is deafening, and there is so much dust I can hardly see the dirt path in front of me. My lips are tightly pursed so as not to take in too much dust in my lungs – but even though my lips are sealed – I am smiling inside. Yesterday […]
At 5:30 AM we had liftoff – and it was then as we started to slowly rise above the trees I realized that we were not alone. We were 1 of 55 hot air balloons as far as I could see and count. They looked like marbles floating beneath me – brightly colored and designed […]
