Drew's Whirled Adventures

  • 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…

    Drew Aposhyan

  • 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…

    Drew Aposhyan

  • 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…

    Drew Aposhyan