A brief trip south to snorkel some history

Istanbul is its own thing. Anyone who's been here feels the confluence of cultures that comes from it being at the center of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. You feel it in the vibe, the food, the buildings, the language … pick a variable.

Istanbul is a mosaic of influences. A cultural tossed salad.

We leave Istanbul for just a couple of days down to Izmir and Bodrum. This take us from the writhing sea of humanity in the streets of the capital down south, to warmer beachy areas.

In addition to trading in cobbled streets for sandy beaches, we’ll see some of Turkey’s amazing antiquities.

This is what kills me, like looking into the night sky and seeing deep space distances my brain simply cannot process, or sailing over deep ocean fathoms I cannot fathom, people in these areas of the world live daily a depth of time I still can't get my head around.

I feel like we simply snorkle on the top of their oceanic history, skimming, drifting on the top layer, peering below as deep as the acheological light will allow.

As we snorkel in regions less … Istanbullish … I wonder what we will see. Whats the same, what's different? And how does it change as you get out of the hive of the capital and into the secondary cities?

The discovery is the adventure, and the adventure is the discovery.

Engineering and art, built centuries ago, enjoyed today, like an echo, like a fuzzy memory.