Laura and I are killing a few hours here in Rome before catch­ing a bus to Lanciano. We had about a day to take in a few sights and pasta dishes here. After almost 2 months in Turkey, the food here has been a huge delight for us. Pizaa, pasta, beef steak! And the pork! [...]

Coming out of the mosque I put my purse down to free my hands and aid in my safe journey back down the awkward, eroded carved steps. Suddenly the world was in slow motion as I heard my bag shift. Even though the top was sealed with Velcro, the only two objects similar in size [...]

If you haven’t yet, you should see part one of this in-depth invest­ig­at­ive report. But enough chit chat, it’s lunch time! Anyway, it actu­ally is lunch time, and as we are back in Istanbul for about 24 hours before heading off to Rome, we’d better take advant­age of the food while we can... Next updates will probably [...]

Hey every­body! Laura’s got a write-up coming about our last week or two. Me? I’ve got some photos to share. But first a few bomb­shells and a note on spelling. Bombshell number 1: We will be getting our visas to visit Iran within the next two days, although it’ll be a month or more before [...]

We know we’ve been lax on the updates, but we hope seeing this video will explain our absence. We decided at the last minute to make a video pro­mot­ing our site for a CIRA contest. The grand prize is a new Macbook Pro laptop. If you’ve seen my beat-up old duct-taped com­puter, you’d agree we [...]