My Ode to Turkey, Meg and Rahul

Editor's Note: We just got to Egypt today after an absolutely amazing week with the Pearsons in Italy in a gorgeous villa on the Amalfi coast of Italy. While we were enjoying countless 3-hour decadent meals, the stupendous Amy Dickie was working hard in our absence. This is the second in a series of "guest blogs" where we require the people who've travelled with us to extol our virtues and say as many nice things as they can in order to convince the rest of y'all to come out and visit us. Hope it works:

Turkey, Meg and Rahul - what a fantastic combination! Really, I cannot imagine a better travelling situation. After all, what other combination could provide several mosque visits, biking through canyons, brilliant navigation of the Istanbul ferry system while enjoying the views of the Bosphorus with a Nalgene of wine, rock jumping in the Mediterranean, insane amounts of bread, extended jovial visits with Charlie Chaplin, Ali the Jandarme, the hairy potter and his wife, Bekir, the thoughtful bike rental guy whose name continues to elude me, a plethora of crazy hats, conversations on everything from tampons to the US healthcare system, magnums, the whole Ihlara Valley walk, the most humorous bargaining ever, Tom Petty, raki, heated hearts and backgammon games and three overnight bus rides all in one week! In the words of both Cathy Pearson and Wesley Willis, you guys are AWESOME, or rather "ahsim". I love you. I miss you. Let's do it again. South East Asia 2009! :)