Cluck cluck, stuck ın Turkey....

We are waitıng for our Iranian Visa ın Turkey, it takes up to one month to process. We couldn't be stuck ın a better country for hospitality. The locals here treat us like super stars. Everyone has taken us in and shown us around the town in almost every city we are in for cheap food and accomodations. Sometimes even feeding us meals and provding us shelter for the night.

Our Turkish is improving on a daily basis as we are adding more and more words to our vocabulary. We are currently in the North side of Turkey in the Black Sea region where all the Çay tea is made. We had a 40km downhill to the Black Sea to a place called Samsun, it was a little bumpy and our rims are still intact but I think it is time for me to replace mine, more technical woes. We have been hugging the Northern coastline and the view has been nothing less of inspiring. The Black Sea has beautiful mountains on the right and wide open turquoise sea on the left. My only concern about the region from talking to the locals is the increase of cancer in the area due to the Chernobyl fallout. Some children are getting cancer after 6 months in this area. I'd like to research more of this topic to hear more about the aftermath 20 years later.


So we will be doing some more touring of Turkey over the next few weeks as we wait for our Visa's to go through. It's probably a good thing as the temperature has been in the 30's since entering Turkey. I think Iran will be even hotter. An Iranian man has expressed interest in joining us for the journey through the region. We are looking forward to his expertise of Iran and it will place less stress on us to learn yet another language.


So Kevin and I will be splitting up for a little get out of each others hair. We have been good travelmates, but I think it will be good for both of us and our sanity. The sibling rivalry still continues sometimes but it is to be expected.

Peace out!

Steve