Robert planned the route for the trip. It is more complex than one may think. We have driving distances per day, type of terrain to be crossed, visa entry dates for each country that must be established and are now set (several countries have very short stay times) and places we want to visit along the way.
I had mentioned in my previous post that my university investments professor was from Istanbul. Well visiting the capitol of Turkey - Ankara gives us the opportunity to visit the burial place and museum of the founder of modern independent Turkey.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk came from a tenuous middle class up bringing in Turkey. A military man from his youth, he ultimately became the first president of the modern country of Turkey. His many reforms to modernize Turkey into an independent, more western style country were many times in direct conflict with the established Ottoman way of life. (For every change we personally make in our lives, there are almost always positive and negative attributes associated with that change.) One of his most noted areas of change concerned the woman of Turkey. Always in conflict with the past, he brought about so much change in so little time. He is on my personal lists of one of the most important men of the 2oth century.
(Out Of Respect, Photography Of What I Thought Were Some Of The Most Interesting Presentations Was Not Permitted.)
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-Is there a museum here someplace?
-Impressive to say the least.
-Now that's a wall!!
-Its a Garand!!
-Time to "get out of Dodge" - again.
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