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Sick, tired, and sick and tired

Monday, August 1st, 2005

I know it has been a while since I’ve posted, but it really couldn’t be helped. I don’t know how to even go about trying to fill in on everything we’ve done, but I’ll try to give the abridged version.

Let’s see, where did I leave off…oh yes, Istanbul. After we left Istanbul (without a carpet or a lamp, sigh), we took an overnight bus to Goreme in the Cappadocia region. I thought, at the time, that it was the most god awful form of transportation that I had ever been on. I found out later that it was only the second most god awful form of transportation. The bus was freezing cold, which wasn’t too bad since I was so happy to not be sweating for the first time in days. Sleeping was impossible because we were right behind the driver and he kept us up with his music and conversation. It was wretched, and when we got in the next morning at about 7am I swore nothing could have been worse. Oh, how naive I was.

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We*re ın Istanbul, not Constantinople

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

It ıs morning here ın Istanbul and I am tired and this keyboard is completely messed up. I cannot find the apostrophe key, so I will not be usiıng any contractions. The i key ıs somewhere equally difficult to find, but as it is hard to avoid using it, I think this will necessarily have to be a short entry. Already this has taken me almost fıve minutes to type.

We never made it to Varna as we found out it would take as long to get there as it would to just go straight on to Istanbul, which is what we did. The train took over 24 hours to get from Bucharest to here. The Bulgarian border patrol was a nightmare, and gettıng a visa at the Turkish side took time, but it was worth it in the end. I was even asked to smuggle a bag of mystery contents across the border by a gypsy…how exciting!

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