Not the 3rd or the 4th or the 5th time... but finally the 6th time was the charm!

Proudly displaying the Turkish Flag in Antalya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Four flight cancellations and one false positive Covid test for Michael later we have finally made it to Turkey.  I had to change our flights, hotel, taxi and transport to Kas so many times I was sure the folks on the other end thought we had lost our mind.  We tested on the 10th of January for our flight on the 12th and were quite surprised when on the 13th the results came back positive for Michael but negative for me.  So... we had to make a flurry of phone calls to un-arrange all the arrangements we had made... including the flight.  We went and got the camper back out of storage and set it back up.  But Michael was not ill and I tested negative (even though we are together all the time).  It just did not make sense so I asked if we could re-test thinking that it could be a "false positive".  Of course, health care workers now have such blind faith in the PCR Covid test that they believe it can't possibly be wrong.  Regardless, they agreed to re-test after 48 hours.  On the 12th we re-tested and received our results on the 13th which now showed us as both being negative. - guess the PCR can be wrong after all.  An expensive lab error for us but at least we get to leave!  Another entire day of phone calls in order to re-schedule our flight for the 14th and make all the other arrangements yet again.  We did manage to rent a car to drive to Chicago at the last minute - so we packed the camper up yet again and dropped it off at the storage place.  We drove to Champaign, Illinois that night and then on to Chicago the next day.  Phew!  What a week.

An array of water tanks, satellite dishes and solar panels

 As we had to arrive on Friday night instead of the Wednesday night that we had planned we have to stay in Antalya for the weekend.  There is a curfew on the weekends (for Covid) so the fellow can't let us in the apartment until Monday.  Its all good though as we have serious jet lag and just want to sleep anyway.  We are on the 11th floor of the hotel so we can see the rooftops of all the apartment buildings.  As in other countries we have been to they store and heat their water on the rooftop.  Most of the roofs have an array of water barrels, solar panels and satellite dishes.  

The Mediterranean out the window

 

We managed to get up and walk to the grocery today but otherwise we are just taking a day to rest - its just hard to sleep on a plane and hard to re-set your internal clock for a new time zone.  The day is lovely - sunny and warm.  And we can see and hear the Mediterranean  What more could you want :).