Ode to Mindy

Stork nests are all over Selcuk. Thinking of Mindy as she's giving birth to Ryan today at Cal Pacific Med Center. Congrats Mindy & Ty!

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Catch up on Turkey

May 7th 2006
Istanbul was my first stop from London (hit "previous journal" at the top of the page to read my brief update on that). Not traveling alone before, I was a little apprehensive to go to Turkey by myself, but I really wanted to go and see where Nihal (my sister-in-law) was from and what my niece Billur and nephew Donovan experience every summer. I guess I thought Turkey would be so different fr ... 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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