istanbul part2.

derya and his mother a the archilogical museum.

meow.

meow take me home meow.

this church turned mosque turned museum that was first built in 527 bc.

the blue mosque.

the harems from the old palace.

sar-dar. 

istanbul day 1-3

3am. some smoking rave music club.

today we went to a private beach club on the black sea.

the water nicely blue and not so salt. however to many jelly fish.



this is dedicated for those who miss him back in vancouver.


handsome serdar.

some collective group art show with a very long boring noise band from the uk.

typical.



HAHAHAHAHAHA.



deryas back yard.
derya's front yard.



yesterday we went to the last ottoman palace built before the turks took over.

instanbul: the city of.. eur... cats!

derya did not tell me this before, but apparently istanbul is notorious for its stray cats. here are some we made friends with last night. (i was in heaven)

i'm no longer in africa. i arrived yesterday afternoon to the open arms of my friend derya and sardar at the instanbul airport. it's beautiful and hot here. derya's parents live in a "cozy" three level villa right on the sea in the out skirts of the city. i awoke this morning at 6am to the chanting of the mosque right behind us. this happens 5 times a day and done through very very vwery large and lourd speakers.

i didn't get much of chance to use the internet while i was in africa so i've uploaded a bunch of photos from the last two weeks.

only in the corporate cola industry would

someone manage to get away with such

delightful absurdity. 

afri'cat'

leah!

back seat driver.

hostel in windhoek on our first day together.

roar.

we stayed at some wonderful places. this here, 

below, had no vanancy so the owner offered us 

cots in his confereance room. then something became available..

malaria!

everywhere we went we stuck out like a soar

thumb. a lot of the kids in the tiny villages

had never really seen white people,

not to mnetion that we got offers to buy our car \

on a daily basis.

castello!

vic falls. livingstone zambia.

smooch.

leah and i did a day asafari in botswana. it was unreal.

\vic falls again.

cape town (day 1-3)

it's currently 9:42 am in windoek. i arrived here at the hostel two hours ago after a 22 hr long bus ride from cape town.

here are a few photos from cape town.



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water front at sunset with table mountain in the back ground.

an olympic size pool two blocks from where i was staying.

this is another photo from that pool. it was about 14 degrees out yet this gourp of boys still managed to find themselve in the pool.

in 2010 cape town is hosting the FIFA wolrd cup. reminded me a little too much like vancouver.

i relocated.

you can go here. or here. or even here if you want....

the trip home.

here are the last of the photos from our trip. it's good to be home. it was warmer today in vancouver then anywhere else on our trip.

this was our home for 9 days....



taco trucks have become a specialty for tony and i.



cinco de mayo in klamth falls, OR. hooray! for burritos and jarritos.




this is our camp site.




it went to almost 0 degrees this night.



wood river, view from our camp site.



oregon landscape.



tony and rachie in crater lake. 7000ft up with about 12 feet of snow under them.



crater lake.


diamond lake oregon. some side of the road gas station.


20 mins of driving down from crater lake we were in 20 degree weather at watson falls.



tony. (my favourite photo of the whole trip.)



toketee falls, oregon.



people don't really know this about rachie, but in high school she was the class clown.

californiaaaaaaaaaa.

some of these are from julie's camera. we spent 4 days and 3 nights in LA. the first night we stayed a cheap motel on sunset blvd. the four of us got 'buck wild' and met up with some friends at sarfari sam's. they had pints of PBR for 3.25$ tony and i went wild.. the next few days were spent at my mom's friends house in glendora. on my birthday we went to six flags for the day and managed to do 16 rides in 5 hours...later that night jaime took all us out for a birthday dinner to Sergio's (one of my favourite mexican restaurants) the weather never got very warm and by the time we got to venice beach on friday we were in pants and sweaters... tony finally got to use his surf board for the first time, however there wasn't much swell...

californian coast.

it's been a long 4 days. it feels like forever since we left vancouver. we've arrived in hollywood just an hour ago. we are spending the night at some sleezy sunset blvd hotel. i love california. here is what the last few days have looked like...

day one through two.

tony, rachel, julie and i decided to stuffe ourselves into a four door sedan for 10 days. this is what day 1 and 2 look like. (photos are in reversed order.)