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Eastbound and Down
I had felt myself racing through Europe. The rush of the western world had seeped into my travel and hilariously, defined my escape from it. The world around me slowed down when I hit Slovenia, and I started to slow myself down as well. I stopped taking buses everywhere and started to hitchhike, finding the…
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Italia and Wildness
Landing in Civitavecchia was a feeling of relief. Not only had we reached land, but we were in fact in Italy, a place I had heard so much about, and the first gate back into a semblance of the wild worlds to the east. I love the feeling of marinas and ports, and the feeling…
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Snap back to reality: Balkans pt.1
Ope, there goes a month. I left off in Istanbul, crossing the border into the adventures of Eastern Europe. I was very excited for this change. The Balkans are a region of the world I have had interest in for a long time, and on the edge of that exploration I had a growing excitement…
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East Meets West: Istanbul
There are few cities with as much mystique surrounding them as Istanbul. For generations this broken isthmus split by the Bosphorus has been a cultural capital, as important to the crusades as it was to the silk road. As the only city in the world that stretches over two continents, it is a swirling blend…
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Turkey Part two
I left off in Gaziantep First it should be noted that in retrospect I am feeling very strongly that stopping there was one of the most important parts of this trip. It helped me to have a vision of where a large part of my family comes from, and the environment that they lived in…
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Turkey: Part one
It was hard to leave the Black Sea. After so long in the high mountain plateaus I was enjoying being by the water again. So much so that I considered for a moment just skirting the southern edge of the Black Sea until I got to Istanbul, a route that would have taken much less…
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