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Wednesday’s whirlwind adventure was an interesting experience with a very interesting guide. The day started with a history of Turkey’s national hero, Ataturk, and the glorious revolution of the early 1920s. It really started to get fun when he started telling the ‘real truth’ about events that we all thought happened in Greece, [...]

Today was a very long and tiring day. I did a whirlwind tour of the Antalya region of Turkey. We hugged the coastline, visiting a number of really fascinating sites, and took in the general amazing beauty of this region of the country. I was out the door at 7:30 this morning [...]

What’s happened since I last posted? I have no idea. All I know is it involved a lot of cheese and a lot of alcohol and I woke up this morning and I was in Belek, Turkey. Ok.. cool.

Today was another beautiful day in Geneva and a lovely day to travel to Annecy, France, which is only about an hour away. Annecy is nestled in between a large lake and the Alps. In this way it reminds me very much of Bariloche. However, being the beginning of fall, there is no snow on [...]

Five things about Geneva:

Ok.  I am sitting here at LAX for the next couple of hours, sitting in between a group of random older people as they talk back and forth through me.  I could move, but I have so much stuff laid out over my lap that I just don’t want to, so I guess I get [...]

It has been a busy couple of days.  Yesterday we took the non-tourist jeep tour of Moorea, filled with activities that no tour company in their right mind would ever offer (though it would be great at raising awareness of the things local people have to deal with just a few meters inland from those [...]

Well, the rain stayed out at sea and several of us went out to dinner at a fabulous French restaurant.  I wasn’t in the mood to go – as per usual, my hermitlike tendencies were starting to come out and I wanted to just hole up in the bungalow, but I’m really glad I went.

I don’t know why I thought it was a good idea to join one of my bungalow-mates on a run this morning.