The Garytale of Turkey, part 1

Welcome back everybody. First thank you to all you lovely people in Turkey:
Leah, Olivia, Cynthia, Sureyya, John, Katie, Jules, Jen, "juniour",
"Kapitan"and Casper. Maybe even "thug life", but thats another part of the
tale, actually not to thug life.

You'll are going to need to get out your atlases. Leif and I flew into
Istanbul, went to the Blue Mosque and an old place in Sultan Ahmet square.
This was all really cool and exotic. We got to see what a secular Muslim state
was like. Really no women at all and those that were out were covered in
shawls. From here, we took that bus to Izmir overnýght, then transferred Buses
for Dalaman and eventually Göcek. We got into Göcek exhauseted and walked from
the gas station bus stop down the rode to the sunny little resort town. The
views were amazing. Jutting mountains with a thick canopy of trees yielding to
a small harbor and village.

Thanks to my incredible fluency in Turkish, Leýf and I walked by the first
marina about a mile down the road to the last marina. Had we checked more
closely, we would have noticed, our lovely vessel, the Lady Crista was docked
right there. Hot, sweaty, and without a shower for two days, we smelled wonderful.
The boat was amazing. It was by far the largest sailing yacht I've been on in
my life. She was about 120 feet long, with two large masts. The entýre boat
was done in wood. I couldn't believe my eyes. I kept doing double takes.
However, next to her Lady Krista was Ecco Naigo, Casper(My friend Leahs Dads
Yacht). Custom built, it was a baller of the boating world.

Leif and I dropped off our stuff and went into town. We immediatly went an internet cafe, and
started browsing. If you'l see a ý instead of a i, its the weird turkish
keyboard. While Leif was surfýng, I discovered the thai massage of Turkey: A
haýr cut and shave. Nothing is better than a staight edge. Ý was very
ecstatýc. I had one more of these, da bomb. The first person to arrive was
Akmed and his mother, both frýends who were stayýng on ecco. Bye the way, Leýf
and Ý were enjoying 40ozs at this point. We chilled and waited till everyone
else arrived at 12:00 at night. Everyone arrived at 12:30, and we all went to
a club: thýs consisted of us and two bartenders. Thankfully, Jen was able to
use her gifts of persuasion and the drinks were on the house the entire night.
GOOD WORK!!! We rolled back to the boat, and passed out.

More to come....


Peter