Yearly Archives: 2021
more than nothing
This post is about an 11km walk from Sinop to Akliman. It was my first day of walking in almost two years, and I wasn’t just out of shape. My friends made kuymak for breakfast, a cheese dish from the area of Trabzon. We drank tea and looked out the window, and I tried to […]
never ready
This is a post about the last preparations I made before continuing my walk from Sinop. I was very nervous. I woke up early and found it impossible to go back to sleep, no matter how hard I tried. The nerves, the nerves. After an hour or so I decided go get up and take […]
reunion
This is a post about what it feels like to be back in Sinop after almost two years, and to finally see the Caboose again. For a moment I wasn’t sure where I was. Morning light fell into the room, the wind was playing with the curtain, and I could taste saltiness in the air. […]