“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” e.e. cummings So for my second day at Petra, I decided to get up early and catch the first shuttle down from the hotel. I entered the park and had heard about a spectacular view…
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” – Dale Carnegie If you are keeping track of things, I’m skipping back chronologically to cover my time in Jordan. I had been in Turkey for a couple…
“Still fair vision lives! Say nevermore that dreams are fragile things. What else endures of this broken world? Save only dreams.” Author Unknown Ok, it’s time for my final installment of the Istanbul series and wrap up Turkey for now. After my time in Pamukkale, we headed on to Antalya. It only took a couple…
“Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.” Judy Collins On the day I was getting ready to leave Ephesus and head on to Greece, I was hanging out in the terrace dining area with my new friend Paige when Alicia entered and we all started…
Greetings Jake! I had seen this before, but was reminiscing about my trip to Selcuk with my mother, and she demanded photos. I’m sending her here. 
I’m not to far from there at the moment (Izmir) and I’ll spend a few days in Kusadasi. Might seem different than when we took our quick stop for burgers in what was undoubtedly the off-season. I’ll keep you posted.
Lovely, lovely work!
Paige
“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter ‘till they bloom, ‘til you yourself burst into bloom.” - Clarissa Pinkola Estes I was told at least a dozen times along my trip how amazing the…
“The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.” – Pink Floyd Some memories are so indelibly burned into your brain that you will likely never forget them. I would be hard pressed to tell you the name of more than three of my high school…
annabella charles - Insane!!!!!!!