Category Archives: Traveling

Auto-touring Konya: Fasıllar, Kilistra, Çatalhöyük, and the provincial capital (merkez)

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Bryan Keith

To get to the start of our Zengibar Yolu walk Ahmet, Ferda, and I drove from Antalya to Konya. A number of things seemed familiar to me. We drove the new Derebucak road which I had bicycled before it was … Continue reading →

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A short layover in Shanghai

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Bryan Keith

When I was complaining about the high cost of flight tickets from Cebu back to Turkey, Alex, a young student from Qingdao (he’s now studying in PEI), asked me if I had looked at China Eastern Airlines. He was thinking … Continue reading →

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A bit of Honshu: Hiroshima, Kurashiki, Tokyo

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Bryan Keith

On this bus, train, and boat trip from Kyoto to Tokyo (oh so different from my bicycle tour from Tokyo to Kyoto many years ago!), we took Japan’s famous shinkansen twice. Even though 12 countries now have high speed rail … Continue reading →

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Seto Inland Sea: Shikoku and Naoshima

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Bryan Keith

Shikoku is one of Japan’s four main islands, the smallest of the four in terms of both area and population. It wasn’t till I started to write up this entry that I realized on my first trip to Japan I … Continue reading →

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Kyoto excursions: Fushimi, Arashiyama, Uji, Nara, Miho Museum

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Bryan Keith

In my last post I showed some photos of some of the places we visited in central Kyoto. For this post I’ve separated out excursions that were a little further afield, sometimes very little. Fushimi Inari Taisha Shinto Shrine, for … Continue reading →

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