Jet lag sucks!

I think I am finally over my jet lag. I can now put start to put together my thoughts enough to update my part o this blog. I never thought ...

Pergamon

In transit on 5-24, we visited the acropolis of the ancient Greek, later Roman, city of Pergamon (extended political history)--a new place f...

Home

After a long day of flying and a couple days of sleep, I am finally ready to blog. I am going through all of my receipts and ticket stubs fr...

Magic Carpets

This would have been 5-24, leaving behind Canakkale, and heading south, first to Bergama (ancient Pergamon), and on to Kusadasi (the modern ...

Jet Lag is Setting in!

It seems like forever since we were in Turkey.  From Turkey we headed to Greece for four days and then headed back to the states!!  Flying b...

Gallipoi--Final

Ok, just a bit of the travel back and forth.  Our bus had to take the ferry from Canakkale to Eceabat, and back, crossing the Dardanelles ea...

Gallipoli 4--Ataturk's Speech

Down at the Ari Burnu cemetery, there's another monument, this one quoting from a speech that Ataturk made in 1934.  Suleyman, our guide...