Akyaka In The Time Of Wildfires
At the end of July 2021, the second pandemic summer, Claire and I drove from Kaş to Akyaka,…
November 2, 2022
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A Purple Weekend in Sapanca
Turkey was entering its fourth month of weekend lockdowns when we decided it was time to get the…
August 5, 2021
Don’t Come Here
A few months ago, I got an email out of the blue from a producer for a travel…
June 15, 2021
Eight Years Abroad
Every year I reflect back not on December 31, but on January 29, the anniversary of the day…
January 29, 2021
This Pandemic Summer
We held hands and approached the blank blackness of the sea, steadying each other as we inched over…
September 14, 2020
A Day In Kisirkaya
We met for breakfast at my favorite menemen joint in Kadikoy and poured over the Google maps on…
February 14, 2020
An Ode To Vacation, Solitude, and Balance
“Aren’t you always on vacation?” I hear this constantly, often in half-jest, usually not. It’s hard to explain,…
October 21, 2019
How do we write about travel and migration?
Two years ago, soon after I’d returned from a reporting trip in Tunisia, I went to a party…
June 27, 2019
An Elegy For The Hekimbasi
“We always have two seats for Cornucopia.” When the organizer of the classical concerts at the Hekimbasi Yali…
April 27, 2018
A Weekend in Van
We thought we’d go to Georgia and spend a weekend drinking Caucasian wine in the curvy streets of…
March 30, 2018