Category: Road Trip
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Running with the Cows (or, “Til the Cows Come Home – Georgia Road Trip, Part 10)
So, where was I? Right… we were leaving Aphrodisias, and I was giving Harun the option of camping at a place about 2k from the site, or driving all the way to Pamukkale (which was not really all that far – we could make it in time for dinner). I was betting ’50-50′ (under normal conditions,…
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Georgia Underground (The Caves of Prometheus) (Georgia Road Trip, Part 9)
I hope you enjoy reading something that I can assure you is lighter and more uplifting than the current international bestseller, “Woe to Us: How I Learned to Survive the Elections and Love The Donald”…. To pick up the nearly lost thread of my Georgian Road Trip saga, I’d like to point out that the best…
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Georgian Beaches (Georgia Road Trip, Part 8)
When Harun and I planned our Road Trip to the Republic of Georgia, well, as Lou Reed once said, “those were different times”. I know I promised (you and me both) that I’d keep up with the story of the road trip, including photos during and artwork after, but what with coups, bombs, witch hunts, elections, more…
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Kobuleti, Kobuleti – It’s Better than Bodrum AND Antalya… (Georgia Road Trip, Part 7)
I hope you enjoy reading something that I can assure you is lighter and more uplifting than the current international bestseller, “Woe to Us: How I Learned to Survive the Elections and Love The Donald”…. To pick up the nearly lost thread of my Georgian Road Trip saga, I’d like to point out that the best…
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Across the Border, Finally. (Georgia Road Trip, Part 6)
A horizontal line drawn from a point midway along a moon-shaped cove on the eastern end of the Black Sea represents the end of the Republic of Turkey and the beginning of the Republic of Georgia. To the north of the line, sunbathers are sprawled on the sand. To the south of the line, the beach is empty. Instead,…
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Centering (Georgia Road Trip, Part 5)
Central Anatolia! One of my favorite places in the world, with fairy chimneys, underground discos, no, wait, forget the disco (been there, done that)… HacıAli likes to tell the story of how one day, driven into a stark-raving frenzy by my disco-neighbors, I smashed all the pots in front of his shop. (About an hour…
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Big, Big Lake (Georgia Road Trip, Part 4)
With ‘democracy’ in Turkey resumed and in full swing, we continued on our way to Georgia, ‘slowly-slowly’, as they say in Turkey. We meandered from the Menderes River waterfall to Lake Eğirdir, passing a wind farm in the middle of nowhere (reminding me that there is a moral component to aesthetics and explaining why objections to wind turbines on…
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So, Where Was I?… (Georgia Road Trip, Part 3)
So, where was I? Right… we were leaving Aphrodisias, and I was giving Harun the option of camping at a place about 2k from the site, or driving all the way to Pamukkale (which was not really all that far – we could make it in time for dinner). I was betting ’50-50′ (under normal conditions,…
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Aphrodisias is for Lovers (Georgia Road Trip, Pt. 2)
Aphrodiasas was the first scheduled stop on our epic road trip. It’s not exactly close to Bodrum, and it’s not really on the way to anywhere, but I’d heard it was a great place (“10 best ancient cities in Turkey”), and had a sculpture studio that was famous in its day (5th century? I forget.…
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 