DRAWING FROM LIFE
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hile exploring
across Turkey. The architecture,
to the Turkish coast then flew
Europe after
food, music and culture of
to Lebanon. After exploring
graduating
Turkey boldly attracted my
Lebanon I traveled by boat
from college, a
senses. I had never experienced
along the coast of Turkey to
Kuwaiti man asked me to help
a skyline punctured by minarets
Iskenderun, a city that was
drive his new car to Kuwait. I
or Muslim culture. The ancient
founded by Alexander the Great
didn’t know where the country
Haga Sophia Mosque stood
in 333 BC.
was, but knew it had to be
out like a beacon in historic
warmer than Germany. I drove
Istanbul. When we arrived at
him across Germany, Austria
the Syrian boarder, the guards
and what used to be Yugoslavia
turned me away because the
and Bulgaria. We crossed the
United States just sold military
Bosporus Straights and drove
jets to Israel. I returned by taxi
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