I arrived back at the hotel, packed up my stuff and checked out, I had been hoping to sneak in another hours sleep, but the van breaking down had sealed the deal on that one. Just as I had checked out the cab driver arrived to take me to Hattusa, I excitedly followed him down to the cab and jumped in, and almost immediately fell asleep. When I woke up we were about half way there and in the middle of nowhere, I was immediately launched into a conversation abo...

I think this is the first time on the entire trip that my alarm has actually managed to wake me up and I haven't beaten it to the punch ten minutes early, but waking up at 3:30am has that effect on everyone. I got up in the dark and threw on whatever clothes my hands managed to locate in my dazed state, I vaguely remember grabbing my sole jumped and remembering to tell my passengers that if they were going to do a balloon ride to dress warmly. I went out and ...

I was woken abruptly this morning for breakfast at 2am. The bus jolted to a holt and the driver yelled forty minutes! I got off and realized how cold I was, I know better than this I thought, I really should have had my jumped with me, not in my pack. I actually bought a cheap blanket to use on the bus, it was so cold. I bought myself a chicken kebab, for no other reason than this allowed me to stand next to the kebab machine and keep warm while I ate. A...

Olimpos. How could so much change and yet still be exactly the same? I started out wanting a full two weeks in this place, thinking that even that wouldn't be enough. The past few days have all kind of meshed into one long day of chilling out, with nothing overly significant to report. I will write about the few things I did do. I have spent a lot of time at the beach, this being the main focal point an activity of each day. It takes about half an hour to...

I briefly woke up on the roof of the boat again at 2am, due to the fact that I was completely sandwiched in between Rich and Butch and both of them were laying on either side of my blanket, kind of like a strait jacket and I couldn't move. After I fought myself free I went back to bed and woke up later for breakfast. I made the mistake of telling the boys that they had unknowingly pinned me down in their sleep, which was of course met with many, Come on Kris,...