The Artemis Pansiyon has become my new home in Fethiye ...


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Language is fascinating ... especially when you don’t understand it. ‘şey’ (pronounced 'shay') means "thing" or "da kine" :-) I loved how Filiz would use it all the time (maybe it is like "like" in Val talk?). I told her I was going to change my name to ‘şey ( Read more... )

Yes, I arrived here over a week ago (Friday, Oct 22 to be exact) and I have not written a thing in this blog.

I am remembering what Wm Irwin Thompson said in his book (The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light) about life's 'waves and troughs' (homo huber and homo faber ... I know how everyone loves these obscure references, lol). It just resonates ( Read more... )

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Since I haven’t been writing for a while, I’m going to batch all my bits and pieces here. So much happens each day; I don’t want to forget any of it. I have posted photos on Flickr, but barely explained any of them. (My time on the computer is limited now -- wifi with coffee at café -- but perhaps that is not so bad ;-)

Last Days in Athens ( Read more... )

Short people RULE! Well, at least they have some status in these Mediterranean places I’ve been visiting ( Read more... )

10pm Thursday: I'm in Athens. I'm staying in a cool hostel (got three cutie boy-roomies) in the Plaka. That means I am in the older part of the city that has few/no cars and lots of activity. There is music outside ... downstairs? Fun place, but confusing. Basically the streets (alleys?) are like veins going in all directions. I have wandered ( Read more... )

As we approached Rome - a bit after 2 pm - I looked out on the city and decided that this may not be the time for me to be there. It was a gut thing. My fellow traveler, a young maritime scholar (he was studying for his exam and we talked ships and Bowditch), was going on to Naples. I realized I wanted to go on to the ferries to Greece. Get me on ( Read more... )

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The week has passed too quickly. Lu says I don't post photos and stories nearly as much as I did in France. I told her I am too busy watching dragonflies in the sun (one huge one hovered and sat on my shoulder this morning!) I am paralyzed by the beauty. Allowing myself to be languorously lazy ( Read more... )