Cappadocia, or Kapadokya, a large region in central Turkey, is home to strange rock formations called fairy chimneys as well as millennia of human history and is where we are staying through Thursday of next week. We’re staying in a cave hotel which we found out are quite common around here. We’re within walking distance…
I published that last post forgetting these items: I bought the kids ice cream from a street (mall) vendor this afternoon and thought what he gave them was some kind of joke. It was the smallest scoops of ice cream I’d ever seen. Then I realized those are appropriate sizes, I’m just accustomed to enormous…
It’s Wednesday night in Istanbul. We’ve only been here a little over a day, but I thought I’d share a few observations before we fly to Kayseri tomorrow morning. Although we flew into the larger Istanbul airport on the European side of the city, we’re flying out of the smaller Istanbul airport on the Asian…
We’ll be flying to Istanbul on Monday, so this will be my last post from Canada. Here are a few tidbits I learned this month: There are no specific words in French for seventy, eighty, or ninety. For example, 95 is quatre-vingt quinze, i.e. 4-20 15. So you have to do some multiplication and addition…
On Monday, August 11, we rented a Dodge Durango – an enormous SUV which was an upgrade because of limited remaining inventory – in Montreal and drove nearly 350 miles to Bar Harbor, Maine. This was our second time to Maine. The first was in August 2006 when Wayne and the kids and I drove…
The movie Race is being filmed in front of our building right now! The building management notified tenants earlier this week that the movie, a Jesse Owens biopic, would feature our building which is supposed to look like a Nebraska hotel in the 1930’s. A couple men knocked on our door about 8 pm and…
We took a 5-hour train ride from Toronto to Montreal on Friday, August 1. It was a full train (although there were assigned seats like on a plane) with a line of people stretched all around the inside of the train station waiting to get on. We found out it was because it was a…
I closed on the Colorado Springs house and we drove part way to my Mom’s house one year ago today. I remember that day as being extremely stressful. Laurel remembers it as extremely stressful in an hysterically funny way. Here’s a summary: I woke up (I didn’t really sleep that night.) on an air mattress…
I’m typing this blog post on my phone; we’ll see how the photo layout turns out. I’m sitting on a park bench while Charlie plays at this small park in Niagara Falls, Ontario a couple blocks from the train station. Laurel didn’t care to join us and is sitting at the station with our bags.…
This is a big ol’ city. The city proper has 2.6 million people and 240 square miles with 5.5 million people and 2,700 square miles in the metro area. When we went up in the CN Tower today, we could see a number of nearby skylines. When I asked a friendly tower employee up on…
Travels with Charlie and Laurel 