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The Gallipoli Tour:  The bus picked us up Tuesday (October 22) at 7am, before the breakfast buffet opened.  So the hotel gave us sandwiches...

 The Cappadocia region is shown on the map in the previous post.     We arrived in Göreme by bus after dark and walked up to our hotel which...

Keeping up here has been difficult.  We’re just too busy, but let me just give you some selected pictures and comments.   We met with a trav...

Just in the opening intro to Robert Caro’s Working, I was inspired to take on a project I’d put off for a couple of years now.   Caro reads ...

  I’m reading Istanbul by Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.   It’s an autobiographical look at the author, Istanbul, and Turk...

[I found this draft post from July 2012.  It appears never to have been posted.  But it's interesting to see how what I wrote 12 years a...

Intro:  Civil Service and Merit System are terms most Americans have heard, but I'd guess that few could tell you, very accurately, wh...

I found the following passage intriguing.  And since it is bad form to copy whole passages of other books without adding value or a new cont...

We're back in Anchorage.  As we went to the airport in the late afternoon Friday, there seemed to be a lot less smoke blowing from the P...