Hi Y’all,
So today is our last full day in the USA! Hard to believe because in many ways it feels as if we’ve hardly been here. We did get to see some friends for way too little time, missed some altogether, and just raced around like mad half the time (though it felt like racing through mud because too much got left undone.)
In a few minutes we’ll start the horrid packing process. It’s horrid because we always buy books and we’re limited to 2 fifty pound suitcases. Seems impossible to me, but it usually works as we really don’t have 100 pounds of stuff. And more shoes. However this time I’m taking back more winter clothes because we didn’t have enough last year in North Cyprus and Marmaris will be colder and wetter. And when we came from Marmaris we had one big and one small suitcase and I’m not sure the small one will do the trick.
I will have to pack away my computer so this is the last email until we’re back on Doramac. I’m just glad it takes half the time to fly to Turkey as it does to Asia or Malaysia. It’s a 16 hour flight from Roanoke to Izmir where we will arrive about 4:00 pm Thursday Turkish time. The bus ride to Marmaris is 5 hours so we’ll stay overnight in Izmir and return to Marmaris on Friday the 16th. In some ways it’s just easier to travel by boat so you take everything with you, including your own bed.
So till next email,