Today is our long awaited departure for Turkey. We will join our good friends Brock and Yukiko for a two week adventure to see the historic culture of Asia Minor, where two continents meet and two cultures collide. East meets west. Our journey will take us through Amsterdam for a two day layover where we will traipse thru the tulips and float on the canals. Monday April 15 we arrive in Istanbul for 5 nights and we have hopes to see mosques, palaces, whirling derv...

T minus two days and counting before we lift off and take flight to Japan. There are always a miilion things to do before a trip. Work is chaos, appointments are filling up our time and the house needs a super clean. But we can't wait to get the journey started. We've been dreaming up this trip since we first got married. Chris always said he wanted to bring me to Japan, his second home. Its Chris that has planned a lot of this trip because he has known so many o...