I've got big plans for this page, but little time!  Eventually I'll get around to writing up some tales from the trip.

In September, 1997, I went to Turkey and Eastern Europe for three weeks with my grad school compadre Paul Curtis.  It was a great trip, filled with strange food, neo-Stalinist border guards, buses of smugglers, Turkish secret police, and Gypsy music.

Until I get around to the writing, here are a few pictures from the trip
 

Before the trip, enjoying a cold one at Fellini's in Atlanta.
	Our trusty transport...
In front of the Blue Mosque, Istanbul.  Ahhh, Istanbul...
	In Topkapi Palace, the Sultan's swanky digs.  This little relic--John the Baptist's arm bone--is tucked away in a back room with some loot from the King of Persia. Poor John is getting dissed!
Medusa-head column on its side in the Cistern of Justinian, Istanbul.
	A great 600-year old Ottoman castle in Selcuk, near the Aegean coast.
The library at Ephesus, on the Aegean.  Check out the color of that sky!
	On the smuggler bus, although we don't yet realize it.  En route from Istanbul, Turkey, to Sofia, Bulgaria.  This picture is somewhere on the Turkish frontier, in the middle of the night.
Enjoying a refreshing beverage on the old square in Brasov, Romania (heart of Transylvania).
	A likeness of St. Stephen, patron of Hungary, in Budapest.  Obviously an alien!
The astronomical clock in the old town square, Prague.

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