Return to Talaria

 

Purple sunset

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our flight for Turkey is booked for January 1st, 2021.  We will arrive in Antalya and spend one night there to catch up on sleep.  The next day we will take a shuttle from Antalya to Kas where we have rented an apartment for one month.  Our fervent hope is that the weather will be nice and we can get the bottom painted in January.  

Rend Lake sunset

 Our list of repair and maintenance tasks to complete keeps growing... unfortunately.  It will be a busy winter but we will manage to make time for exploring Turkey.  We have some friends that will be arriving in February so we are excited about seeing the sites with them.  A trip to Cappadocia is planned!

October sunset

 In the meantime, we have been enjoying some spectacular sunsets from our campsite at Rend Lake.  It has become a bit of an obsession each night.  Just beautiful!

Pelicans in flight

 And it was an added and unexpected treat to be at the lake when the migrating pelicans arrived.  There are well over a hundred pelicans at the lake right now as they make their way south.  Majestic creatures.

At present Greece is not allowing any travel from Turkey to Greece.  This is largely due to the refugee crisis which in turn is due to the humanitarian crisis which is due to the war in Syria (Turkeys neighbor).  That could present a problem as our plan is to get boat work completed over the winter and then sail to Greece in April -ahead of the crowds and the harsh meltemi winds.  I have written to the Greek consulate in Chicago and am waiting for some response.  Always something.  What was it Ben Franklin said "change is the only constant in life...".  So things change and we adapt to the change... life goes on :).