Who says every post has to be a long-winded rant? Here’s a few pic­tures I took on top of a moun­tain when we were in Turkey!

We had one of our best single days in Diyarbakır, thanks to the gen­er­os­ity and eager­ness of one man to share his city and culture with two total strangers. We met Muzaffer while walking down the street, in what seemed at first like just another friendly “where are you from?”
It’s a common enough thing for strangers [...]

For the first time in my life I have had people ask me where I’m from and when I say Canada they shrug their shoulders and say, “Where’s that?”  After 5.5 months I am offi­cially home­sick.
Although some of my home­sick­ness might be brought on by the fact that my entire body is aching, my eyeballs [...]

Currently Chris and I are in a hotel room in Diyarbakir in eastern Turkey. I thought I could post a bunch of random photos for you guys to enjoy. They cover all sorts of dif­fer­ent things and times during our trip, includ­ing our Sahara trek, Italy, Morocco and Turkey.
We plan on heading into Iran in three [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. We’ve been working our butts off on a video for the Second Home Hostel here in Istanbul. If the dang thing ever uploads prop­erly, you’ll see it soon enough.
In about three hours, we’ll be leaving on a 26-hour train to a city in Eastern Turkey called Malatya. From [...]