Today was full of Ephesus, heat, and more heat. We leave this area tomorrow for another, and I'm ready to leave. It's hot as Hades, and even if the next location is no cooler, I'm sure the hotel will be more comfortable. I'm ready to go back to Istanbul. I really like Istanbul a lot, but I would hate being at the mercy of traffic ( Read more... )

Hello! So, I haven't got any photos for you tonight as I've been traveling mostly without internet for the past several days and haven't had a chance to transfer / edit / sort through everything just yet. Instead, I wanted to take the time to write a little more tonight, and jot down a couple of things, for fear of forgetting. (If you know me, you ( Read more... )

I am still a day off, but at least I'm catching up at a decent speed, riiiight? So yesterday, we started around 10 AM, and managed to get through Tokapi Palace and went out on the water afterwards. Because I haven't got the time just yet, I think I'm just going to chuck photos at you. Sounds like a plan, right? Awesome. Here goes:


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Yipes. I'm supposed to be keeping a travel journal (blog?) and have already fallen two days behind. Silly me. I'm supposed to start at the very beginning, right? Our first stop is Istanbul, Turkey. We barely got onto our flight, pleading at the check-in to let us on, and once let through, were rewarded with about an hour waiting to take off the ( Read more... )

It will become increasingly difficult for me to write here, as my privacy is, well.. Limited. However, I hope I won't succumb to the influence of fixing things too much for watching eyes. I intend to remain completely honest, but even honesty can become dulled if not carefully maintained ( Read more... )

I have so many lingering thoughts and things going on in my head, and even within an hour, they're all gone again, replaced by new ones and dreams and hopes and fears and worries and I don't know what to do about them. All I know is that I want them to stay, I want to remember them and hold them close and I'm so tired of moving on and going on and ( Read more... )

IT IS SIXTY FRIGGIN' DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.

YESSSSSSSSS.

(Yep, that's it.)

Much love,

Sammi <3
xoxoxoxo

I have had a dream that has roughly repeated twice now. Besides the somewhat strange component of Smurfs, a detail dully noted but of no particular importance except for comedic value, it essentially involves someone telling me, "That won't do. It's not enough ( Read more... )

People have frequently told me that I'm a cynical person. Hardened, unbreakable, relentless. Some people tell me that's part of the New Yorker mentality - the cold, headstrong individual constantly pushing at boundaries. If anything, though, I feel completely weak on the inside. I have the mentality to push on through whatever comes at me and ( Read more... )

Tonight, we saw a production of Cyrano de Bergerac on Broadway with the heartbreakingly incredible Kevin Kline. I've never read Cyrano, so I was caught completely unaware by the brilliance of this production. I have no idea why I write after so many theatrical productions, but they always make me think, and I suppose that in turn spurs me to write ( Read more... )