Yearly Archives: 2007

Half A Year On (And They’re Sacrificing Sheep)

By Tom | Published: December 20, 2007
It seems far longer than 6 months — but at the same time it feels like we left yesterday! It’s an odd feel­ing, but I think I can pin it down to the fact that we have removed almost all trace of routine from our lives. I begin each day with little real idea of [...]
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Coastal Progress

By Tom | Published: December 9, 2007
We’ve spent three weeks since leav­ing Istan­bul fol­low­ing the Black Sea coast­line. Yes­ter­day we com­pleted the very hilly north­ern stretch, arriv­ing in the pen­in­su­lar town of Sinop. It’s a charm­ing place with some of the friend­li­est people we’ve met in Tur­key so far. Already we’ve been fed lunch, din­ner, break­fast and lunch again, taken club­bing, [...]
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Frost, Tea and Celebrity

By Tom | Published: November 26, 2007
Ten days have elapsed since we made our way hes­it­at­ingly out of Istan­bul after nearly a month off the bikes. We were expect­ing hard­ship; cyc­ling and camp­ing in the cold, wet, and moun­tain­ous climes of north­ern Turkey.
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It’s Not All Bad News

By Tom | Published: November 14, 2007
I know you like read­ing about our mis­for­tune. It’s dra­matic stuff. I like writ­ing about it, too, try­ing to com­mit the exper­i­ence to words and take you to that place and time. I hope that the res­ults are enter­tain­ing, but also resemble the real­ity of what happened, too — exag­ger­a­tion and artistic license are not [...]
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At Least It Happened In A Big City

By Tom | Published: November 1, 2007
Andy and I have been soak­ing up Istan­bul for a fair while now. We’re both itch­ing to get on the road again, and I’m excited and a little appre­hens­ive at the pro­spect of see­ing through the winter in Cent­ral Asia. But we’ve had more than our fair share of hic­cups, and they are still pre­vent­ing [...]
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