Walk Across Turkey

It took me about an hour of walking to reach Erbeyli. In most of the towns I had passed, the mosque was within 200-500...

Saturday, 8 September About 3 hours out of Horsunlu, I started the climb out of the Menderes River valley. The predictable pattern of the farm...

The day’s walk was along a section of road with gently rolling hills, gradually climbing towards Denizli, a city halfway between the Menderes River...

Friday, 7 September I stopped that day at Horsunlu, a small village at the eastern edge of the Menderes River valley. The river valley at that...

The next morning I pulled on my pack and walked out of the lobby of the Thermal Springs hotel. I started to cross the...

Monday, 17 September - Denizli Monday morning, the third week of the walk, I packed up my stuff and said goodbye to Metin and the...

Once I got my tent set up in the park, the feeling of panic I had felt back in the hotel 36 hours earlier...

Friday, 14 September The next morning I woke up, broke camp, and walked over to the station’s café for a breakfast of menemen (scrambled eggs,...

The next morning, I woke up knowing that I was going to have to do whatever it took to work my foot back into...

On Friday morning, my fourth morning in Horsunlu this time around, I woke up and got ready to begin another day of working my...

It was fig harvest season in the valley, and there was rack after rack of figs drying by the side of the road. Early...

Monday and Tuesday, 8 and 9 October I enjoyed the pension at Eğirdir so much that several days when my week’s vacation was finished, I...