Mar 15, 2020 | Cultural Experiences, Leisure, Romantic, Themed Events, USA
DomCon bills itself as The World’s Premier Professional and Lifestyle Domination Convention. Sounds interesting, right? There is annual DomCon in Los Angeles and we live near Los Angeles; are we even allowed to attend? According to their website,...
Mar 1, 2020 | Asia, History, Unexpected/Unexplained
İzmir is the third most populated city in Turkey, the second largest metropolitan area on the Aegean Sea (Athens is the first), and has a dot over the capital i in its name, pronounced as EE in meet or EA in seat. It is a short distance from where we are staying...
Feb 16, 2020 | Asia, History, Unexpected/Unexplained
About 3,000 years ago, a group of Attic and Ionian Greeks colonists displaced the native Carian and Lelegian inhabitants of an area near the Küçükmenderes River in western Turkey and founded Ephesus, a city famous for many monumental buildings including the Library of...
Feb 2, 2020 | Asia, Cultural Experiences, Romantic
The backstory: We were vacationing in Greece on the island of Samos to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. We could see Turkey from our balcony and watched the sun rise over the beautiful country every morning. We wondered if it is possible for us as American...
Jan 19, 2020 | Sport and Recreation, Themed Events, USA
Roller derby!! The exciting sport played by women, zipping around a track on roller skates, with the designated jammer trying to lap members of the opposing team while hindering that team’s jammer. This contact sport has thrills, chills, and spills, and we...
