November 30th, 2010: Now, my Thanksgiving started out pretty solid. Felicia and I drove a traffic-less 70 miles from our house in Burbank to meet up with the rest of the family for a little holiday photo session in Riverside. Any day that starts off with pictures and family is a good one, and [...]
Day: 36 Well after a night of thinking it over I changed my mind about sitting on a bus for 10 hours to Bulgaria, only to have to follow that with a 22 hour ride into Romania, and follow that with 12 more into Hungary. 44 hours on a bus over the next week just [...]
Day: 35 Jasper and I decided to spend the day following another of Akbars suggestions and take a ferry out to Princess Island, take an hour long walk to the top and have lunch. Since we have been spending too much money lately the 1.5 lire ($1.10) ferry ride and a free walk seemed like [...]
Day: 34 I actually managed to sleep 11 solid hours on an overnight bus, the drugs Dr. Akbar gave me kick ass. Fortunately he set me up with a few more of these magic sleeping pills for future uncomfortable long term travel. I woke up some time around 8:30 in the morning right as the [...]
Day: 33 When we woke up this morning we realized the water was way to deep to dive for my plate, so I just wrote it off and apologized to the captain, who seemed to have a good laugh over the whole thing, probably because he was 50 lire richer. The only real plan for [...]
Day: 32 I’m pretty sure the captain of this ship hates us. This morning he was so hung over that he would only grunt and didn’t even tell us what we were going to be doing for the day. I believe we were supposed to stop in a town on one of the nights but [...]
Day: 31 A knock on my cabin door wakes me up followed by a Turkish accented “Breakfast”. I mumble something and head up to the deck to find a spread of olives, tomatoes, cucumber, hard boiled eggs, goat cheese, bread, an assortment of jams/honey and tea. I am sure going to be spoiled when I [...]
Day: 30 It’s time to move out of my tree house and head out to sea for a few days. The cruise I’ve booked was a great deal, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I may just end up spending three days on a tug. Sometime around my morning omelet I came to realize [...]
Day: 29 So I was a naysayer… I though it would be interesting to see this eclipse, but I never imagined something like this. It was amazing, the world went completely black and you could stare strait at the sun and see this brilliant circular flare, my pictures can never do it justice, even if [...]
Day: 28 Well, now that I actually have sunblock and the fact that I was slightly hungover I decided I’d just take it easy and walk down to the beach, sit in the sun and listen to music. A bold plan, but one I thought I might manage to carry out. By the time I [...]
