In 2015, I went to Turkey for 5 months. It was the first time I had traveled alone. It was impactful for a number of personal reasons, but I’ll stick to things about the places I visited.

It had been 9 years since I came to Turkey the first time. I doubted it had changed much. I know for sure I'm a different man now, but I didn't explicitly know how, exactly. I hadn't thought about Antalya much at all, but when I…

There was a deaf girl on the flight to Istanbul. She fell asleep while they were giving out dinner. When she woke up, she typed into her phone asking me about dinner, and I typed into mine a message saying…

Sarajevo seems like a unique city. Not in the cliche sense that every city is unique, but in a way that has shown its uniqueness over time. You can see a bit of this in its architecture, which was influenced by…

After taking over Istanbul, Mehmet the conqueror rapidly expanded into the Balkan region. For the next 450 or so years, the Ottoman empire had control over modern day Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and more. But I've heard the Ottomans didn't…

I'm sitting at Andar Cafe in Sarajevo, and the drinks menu is on a shoe... yeah. Apparently this guy and his fathers used to make shoes, but it's no longer profitable so this guy decided to make it into a cafe that…

Imagine you were in Istanbul and had two options to get to Sarajevo, Bosnia. One would be to take a cheap, 2 hour flight directly there. Another would be to decide to take a bus, even though there is no direct bus this week, so you just…