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Turkey

January 2nd 2007
TURKIYYE! The bridge between the Eastern and Western worlds... We arranged to meet up with Scott´s Mom in Turkey (Istanbul, not Constantinople). She had been wanting to visit the area for some time now and it was great to have some family along for a portion of the trip. Being that our visit was in wintertime and exploring beaches was out of the question, we decided to limit our travels ... read more

Middle East » Turkey

Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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A Trip Around the World "Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has a personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only w... full info

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