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Another speed post from Turkey – this time from the super-cute town of ??rince.  I´m using a Turkish keyboard with some extra characters (stuff like ?, ?, Ü, é, and €) and alternate key placements (ö instead of a comma, ç ?nstead of a period), so typing is a bit of a challenge.  I´ve even got a secondary Alt key to handle the extra stuff.  I´m not even sure this is go?ng to display anyth?ng but gibberish, but I thought it would be a fun experiment to try out.

Here’s a little international post for you.  I’m writing to you now from Esbelli Evi, a cute little hotel in the cute little town of Urgup (there should be little dots over the u’s – I can’t figure out how to do it right now) in the Cappadocia region of Turkey.  We’ve been  in this great country for several days now and have been having a great time.  Today we traveled from Istanbul, a city of over 15 million, to this little town of 15 thousand.  In doing so we crossed from Europe to Asia, which would’ve been more cool had we not already crossed from Europe to Asia and back again just for dinner the other night.  If I could post a couple pictures, I would, but I didn’t want to drag my laptop with me this time around.  Rest assured that there will be a full assault of photos once we return.  And in case you’re wondering, we haven’t run into any swine flu over here.  With any luck, things will burn out stateside before we come back.  I’ve got my N95 respirators packed just in case.