I travelled to Turkey with some friends on an overnight bus ride this past weekend, which took somewhere around ten hours. We had to buy a visa just to get in (which thankfully is far less work than getting a Greek visa… all I had to do this time was pay) but got to see a bit of Muslim [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pray’
5 Oct
Never Imagined I Would be Here
This past weekend I took my adventures to new heights, literally. Saturday morning started off a little rainy and quite foggy. I had no idea what to expect as we got off the bus and grabbed our backpacks. Much to my amusement, the bathrooms were just like the ones in China. For some reason I [...]
13 Sep
Airport Adventures
Text: Riding over to the Des Moines airport on Friday I felt fairly accomplished. Somehow I had managed to pack everything the night before and fit it all into one suitcase and one carry-on. The only problem was, when I got to the airport a startling realization hit – “everything” weighed 84 pounds. What I [...]
