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Months ago, on our way to the “cotton castle”, in Pamukalle, Turkey, we were beckoned inside a home by a squat women, let’s call her Helga, with chapped hands and a ruthless expression of hospitality. It was something we’d seen before.
Come, come, it said. Take off your shoes, it insisted. Have some tea, it offered. Buy something completely useless to weigh down your backpack. It’s Turkish tradition.
And so we did.
The summer of 2005, we (Andrea & Boudreaux) left the rest of the mortgage-paying but well-dressed alphabet in Denver, CO to join the Peace Corps in Bulgaria. At the end of our service in October 2007, we departed on a night train to Turkey to travel overland through the Middle East and Africa, couchsurfing as we went. We returned in August 2008 to meet America, as you might an old lover, with fresh eyes and a new fondness.
but the memory & smile that you carried away were weightless!