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And the journey continues

My flight was delayed from IST to Frankfurt and I missed my connection and had to stay overnight. Friday I got a plane to Indianapolis via Chicago. I'm here in Indiana now and will fly back down to South Carolina later this week and move to Charleston next week. Thanks again for keeping up with my blog... I'll now try and wrap it up with a few more photos.

Cappadocia

Monday night I took an overnight bus (12 hrs.) to Cappadocia with Nicole and her boyfriend Benni. We had breakfast and checked out the town of Kayseri and then took a mini-bus to Ürgüp. After haggling with some car rental and tour places Benni had the idea of hiring a taksi for the afternoon. Nicole bargained with him in Turkish (she´s German, but her Turkish has gotten quite good since September). İ sealed the deal when İ pulled out $10 less in cash than he wanted-- but the sight of money was enough. We visited several places in the area and saw lots of cool rock formations and homes built into the sides of cliffs, though we didn´t get to any of the underground cities. We took another mini-bus to Nevşehir and walked around a bit before getting another overnight bus. The got off in the capital city of Ankara and İ arrived back in İstanbul by about 7:30 a.m. Luckily İ was able to sleep on the bus each of the past two nights so İ am feeling pretty good today. İ´m about to go to İstanbul Modern (art museum) and will meet some friends for dinner and some more live music tonite. Flight home tomorrow should arrive in D.C. by 8 p.m or so... İ love coming the other way-- actually get to arrive on the same day you left. İt´s been a great trip. Thanks for keeping up with my blog, İ hope you enjoyed it... check back next week for some bonus photos.

like i never left

İstanbul has been great so far. İt has only been about 3.5 months since İ left and it feels like just yesterday. My friends are great and İ love this city. My school was having their spring festival so there was lots of great live music Thursday and Friday. Saturday İ got to play frisbee with my old crew and have dinner with Faik. Seeing my old friends has been really great. Fun to celebrate my birthday here. Perhaps to central Turkey this week or perhaps I will just hang around here. To the States on Thursday.

knights are cool. better than pirates at least.

the once famous, now infamous bridge/ waterfall in Luxembourg and a church in Haarlem, Netherlands

my pentax (r.i.p.) had a cool background feature... my aunt Rhonna and İ thought this was pretty hilarious. yep, that is a diamond lined heart. haha. we had a really fun time in the netherlands.