Day 7, Jul 2: Stonehenge, Salisbury, Old Wardour Castle
I got up about 4am after 5 hours of pretty good sleep. I wrote Saturday's blog and Dan was up right as I posted it. [...]
Day 6, Jul 1: Dover, Walmer & Deal Castles
We were both incredibly tired last night - probably from the 26 hour day since we picked up 2 extra hours between Istanbul and England, [...]
Day 5, Jun 30: Canterbury, England
We got up at 5:30, had a quick breakfast downstairs then took the taxi to the airport. We go there at 6:50 for an 8:50 [...]
Day 4, Jun 29: 4th & Final for Istanbul
We both got decent sleep, had breakfast in the hotel and went out for our last day in Istanbul just before 9am. It was a [...]
Day 3, Jun 28: Istanbul, Part 3
Thankfully, I slept about 7 hours last night with only a couple of interruptions. Dan slept well, too, so we were glad to be ready [...]
Day 2, Jun 27: Istanbul, Part 2
Dan made up for his bad first night last night and slept easily until 6am, about 7 hours. He says he would have slept longer [...]
Day 1, Jun 26: Istanbul, Part 1
I managed to sleep about 6.5 hours and got up about 5:45. Dan only slept about 4 hours and had been up since 3am. Breakfast [...]
Departure: Sacramento/Raleigh to Istanbul
As I type it's coming up on 10am ET Saturday morning. I'm in the British Airways lounge of Terminal 7 at JFK. I took a [...]
Pre-Departure
As I mentioned in our recent Chicago blog, that was the beginning of a bunch of travel for us, especially if you're Dan. That was [...]
Monday, May 29: Chicago – Day 3 and home
I'm writing this Tuesday morning, May 30. I took today off as well and I'm so glad I did. Today I get to do what [...]
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