Turkey Vacation

05/16/98: Istanbul Sights

I woke up at 4am and realized I had forgotten something very important about comfort. To a Turk, a comfortable room temperature is maybe 80 degrees. One discomfort about the opera house is that it was warm and stuffy. This car had its own radiator, and... 

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05/17/98: Transit: Istanbul to New Jersey

(I will keep today’s log entry short since there is no a lot of insight about Turkey left to make.) Today is my birthday. I was up for an hour or so before we had to go. We got a wake-up call. He woman who ran the hotel had gotten up to wake us... 

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