The House of the Virgin Mary

On our way back from Ephesus, our bus cliimbed the narrow road up the hills to the reputed House of the Virgin Mary.  This is now an active,...

Ephesus 2

Continuing in Ephesus... A view from the upper city, toward the agora and library... and a market district, with mosaic-tiled sidewalks in f...

Ephesus 1

And our last full day in Turkey, we visited the site of the ancient city of Ephesus--though that is misleading.  Suleyman tells us that beca...

Road to Kusadasi

After Pergamon, we still had several hours on the bus, almost due south, heading to Kusadasi, our last stop in Turkey.  Suleyman told us lot...

     Wow that was alot of really cool stuff really fast.      I feel like I did everything I needed and wanted to do in Turkey and Greece. I...

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...