http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Born to Explore/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Born to Explore en-us Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:14:23 BST Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:14:23 BST Thank you again for all the messages. Although we are having a blast we still long for all of our friends at home. Well at least for a minute. Back to the adventure.Naxos was an enjoyable place to put up our feet but there was much anticipation of spectacular beauty as we headed to Santorini and we were not disappointed. There were many conversations about living on the edge of a volcano and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Santorini/blog-192514.html Apologies before you start reading We get very verbose wordy not that we werenrsquot before as this is the last kick at the can. Sorry.The Turkish bus network continued to do itself proud as we had an ldquoairlinelikerdquo ride from Selcuk to Istanbul leaving at 930pm and arriving in Istanbul at 8am. The massive bus station in Istanbul set us on the right course by getting us a f http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/blog-191346.html The Travelblog site has been down the last week so not sure if this will ever see screen time. Important to us however is the recording of our adventures so we will continue. We did a whirlwind tour of Pamukkale. Getting off the overnight bus from Cappadocia at 7am we considered it a victory just to have made it given the current state of the trooprsquos intestinal tracts. Not being able http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Sel-uk/blog-190074.html We left off last time in Cirali pronounced Chiralee at the Canada hotel where Carrie and her husband Saban were great to us. Our last evening was spent doing a 1 km steep climb up the backside of Chimaera to see their eternal flames try googling that one. There is an area in some exposed rock that has natural gas mostly methane leaking from the ground creating these spontaneous and continu http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Central-Anatolia/Cappadocia/blog-188574.html It is hard to put into words what we have just experienced in the last six days in Turkey. We took the fast ferry supposed to be 45 minutes and turned into almost 2 hours from Rhodes to Marmaris but that is Turkey time. Trevor has extremely fond memories of Turkey and from minute one it lived up to its billing after conferring with Marla that should be reputation not billing. Well almos http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Fethiye/blog-186344.html ldquoIt is only 41 degrees The real heat wonrsquot start for a few days.rdquo No wonder we can only be up for 2 hours and then have to have a siesta. We had an amazing travel agent and she has planned things so that each of our experiences has been incredibly different and special Thanks Marla I know itrsquos a bit sucky but it is true. As we mentioned our nice little 16 passenger http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Rhodes/blog-184314.html The journey continued as we left the luxury of Paros for the unknown on Naxos. The ferry terminals and rides are certainly something that can only be described as controlled chaos. If we thought the situation in Athens was just because of the big city we were wrong as each port has its own sense of pandemonium a stampeding cattle herd is an apt analogy. The kids continue to be amazing as the l http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Naxos/blog-181811.html Greetings from Paros everyone. We left behind the big city feeling of Athens we enjoyed our time but we were ready to move on for the ldquoreal Greekrdquo feeling of the islands. ldquoThis is what I thought Greece was going to be likerdquo to quote more than one Connor child. Up at 5am walking 5 blocks heavy laden with packs one on front and one on the back the kids received more http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/South-Aegean/Paros/blog-180139.html This is a test of the emergency Blog System. Please check your response to receiving the email for this blog. IF there was a sense of annoyance or ldquooh nordquo press delete and get on with your day. Otherwise welcome to our Adventure. The Connor clan left Vancouver with relatively little fanfare. The only glitch was the jackknife that had been left in on of the day packs. With the thou http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Greece/Attica/Athens/blog-178793.html Courtney and I are sitting here at the computer and the anticipation is growing. We all just finished school and we are making our last minute preparations. Are you packed Trev Are you kidding we still have 6 days. It is not even the morning of our departure. We have gone and purchased our Euros 4 of the 5 travellers have packed their bags and we have checked our flights and accommodati http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Maple-Ridge/blog-175302.html This is the beginning of our adventure. We have been planning our trip to Greece and Turkey for the past 5 months. We leave in July and are continuing to research and get excited about getting back into the travel mode. Life is great in B.C. but we sure love the adventure and fun of visiting new places and meeting new people. We are just getting the feel for recording our thoughts and infor http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Maple-Ridge/blog-147395.html