… bereft. We woke up at 3:45am this morning for our much anticipated sunrise hot air balloon ride over the lunar landscape of Cappadoccia. We were picked up and taken to an early, early breakfast where we kept checking a…
Fairy Chimneys
It took a morning of travel, but we finally arrived in Cappadocia (more specifically the town of Göreme)! We’ll be spending the night in a 1,500 year old room that had previously been both a Chapel and a dove cote…
Travertine Dreams
We woke up to yet another view of the castle from our balcony. A quick Turkish Breakfast at our hotel, and we hit the road to head east. Our first stop was to Kaklik Magarasi, which is a cave filled…
Exploring Ephesus
We left Marmaris bright and early by bus, with only a slight concern as to if we were going to the right place (people kept saying Dalaman but all the signs said Havalimani which turned out to mean airport in…
Wild Marmaris nights
Though Marmaris is traditionally one of the three starting/ending points of the Turkish cruises, it surprisingly doesn’t feel like a huge tourist trap, yet. It definitely has all the hallmarks of such a place: an overabundance of bars promising cheap…
Cruising the Turkish Riviera
If there was a short list of the most supremely relaxing things one can do in this world, taking a Blue Cruise on a Turkish Gulet has to be near the top! 3 days and nights where the only thing…
Getting to Fethiye!
We arrived in Istanbul, and two buses later settled into our AirBnB by the domestic airport. A short walk to dinner, where we ate iskender at ‘baydöner’. We tried to order one 1.5 portion but miscommunication got us TWO 1.5…
It’s go time!
Who’s got jazz hands and is pumped to be heading to O’Hare? We do/are! Ok, so the joke is a grammatical fail whale, but it’s because I’m so excited I can’t think straight! Next stop, Istanbul! -J
First post!
Don’t get too excited…. this is just a placeholder post while we get things setup 🙂 “I’m really excited to start a blog. It should be awesome!” -G