Leave It To Mel Travel

Mel and I found ourselves in Athens last summer with a long week on our hands before embarking on our Yachts of Seabourn cruise to Istanbul (see post below). We spent a little time looking into going to one or more of the Greek islands. This was July, and the ferries were [...]

For our honeymoon we booked a one-week cruise aboard Seabourn, a fabulous cruise line with small ships (‘yachts’ as Seabourn prefers to say) carrying up to 208 passengers. We had 180 on ours, the Seabourn Spirit. We were thinking of booking a three-week Venice to Istanbul itinerary, but being first-time cruisers, were afraid [...]

Ran into our friend Doyle at the hardware store yesterday. Mel told him about starting her own travel agency. We started talking travel and places we like to go and have been. Doyle and his girlfriend went to Cabo San Lucas recently and stayed at an all-inclusive time-share place for two weeks. [...]

Mel and I have always been independent travelers. We are also foodies. We were not drawn toward all-inclusive resorts. We feared being trapped at a place with bad food and nowhere to go.

One December after teaching Fall quarter I was fried and asked Mel (the great researcher) to find us a trip. [...]

This place is awesome! Located in the central party of Turkey (nearest big town is Kayseri), this region is dominated by a large volcano. The rock formations from its ash deposits are soft, and nature erodes them into fantastic shapes, many of them like big mushrooms.

People work the rock too. The region [...]

Mel and I have a real passion for travel – we travel when we can, and we read and talk about it all the time. We (especially Mel) research extensively and find places we want to visit, and accomodations we dream of staying at.

In our travels we meet locals and fellow travellers and we [...]

yabb (yet another bl**dy blog)!

Mel and I (Steve) enjoy travel and want to share some of our experiences (good and bad) with you here. We hope to learn something from you!

-Steve