Travel Woes and Great Food

This is a random post, but thought it might be worth sharing our travel woes. If you have been keeping up with my trip so far, you are aware of the issues we had with our initial flight out of RDU. The bus ride to DC wasn't bad but it wasn't a part of the plan. Then last night we had a early evening flight from Istanbul to Izmir. We flew into the brand new airport there and as we were deplanning there was some confusion about where we were to go and unfortunately one of our group members was separated from the rest of us for about 25 minutes. Fortunately we were able to meet back up, but with the airport only being a week old, there was miscommunication about where our us was to pick us up. Because of that we had to walk about 15 to 20 minutes to finally reach our bus. We finally made it and things worked out fine but it just happens that sometimes things don't go smoothly. Our group was and continues to be determined and we do not allow it to deter us from having a great time.

The food so far has been great. We mostly have been eating in the hotels which has consisted of a variety of vegetable plates and unique ways of cooking meat. We just finished lunch at a local place in Sardis that had wood fire-grilled meatballs, and they were fantastic.

Today we have begun visiting many if the seven churches mentioned in Revelation and other places as we continue to move back up the Aegean Sea coast. I will update later this evening.

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