We Thrived in Ruins and Looked for Mermaids on the Aegean Sea, Part 1
A Turkish summer of fantastical exploits and healing camaraderie
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5 min readMar 21, 2022
When I was twenty-two, I spent two months traveling throughout Turkey. I was called Indiana Jones during a party of belly dancers on the Black Sea and nearly died of food poisoning on the Syrian border. I was shown secret underground caves…
