2014 Seyahati / Road Trip

[13 August, Tanju] Elevation 1601 m. Black Hills National Forest. The monuments are 18 m in height. 

We slept at Wall, SD after a 14 hour drive. Thank God for cruise control! After Wisconsin, light traffic, hundreds of miles of straight highway, and 75 mph limit made cruise control very attractive.  We passed Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and…

[11 August, Tanju] We arrived at Chicago at Sunday night. Our hotel was centrally located and family oriented. When I attempted to post my Niagara notes before down, I spilled water on my laptop’s keyboard. Thus we had to start…

[9-10 August, Tanju] I’m delayed in writing but managed to update our Niagara picture gallery in the mean time. We left Boston with delay due to the slowness in the car rental place, then ran into some unexpected slow traffic…

Our first and only day in Chicago was intense, brisk and above all, fascinating. Nowhere have I seen before such a large collection of skyscrapers this architecturally diverse or beautifully designed. Nor have I, prior to this, sampled a deep-dish…

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We went close to the Niagara falls, and it was one way to take a bath! Despite the rain coat they gave, we were drenched. Not only that there was a full Rainbow!!! Think of the beauty! After that we…

Today was good and bad: Bad; 1. After the walk my feet hurt like hell. 2. My mother complained to me about my tone of voice. Talk about over reacting! 3. It was COLD! It was as if I was…

USA: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Cataltepe family. Its two-week mission: to explore known tourist attractions, to seek out reasonable hotels and restaurants, to boldly go where many a tourist has gone before. [With apologies to…

Friday the 8th was our last day in Boston. We again walked to MIT around noon. I saw Zehra and Irem off to a meeting at Boston University and walked to my old dorms. I had stayed at MacGregor House…