Our per­sonal exper­i­ence cross­ing the border from Turkey to Iran, and getting Iran Visas in Turkey.

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!

February 2011 Update: If you are looking for info on the visas and border cross­ing itself, Chris has posted about that here. We were both still sick, but non­ethe­less on Wednesday, June 16^th we bought bus tickets from Van, Turkey to Orumiyeh, Iran. I must admit that deep inside me I was a little uncertain. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]