Wanderlust Cafe

I sift through memories and longings and try to discern my intentions for Turkey.
What do I hope to see and do and feel?  Not enough time to fully explore and discover.  I try to send my spirit ahead on this journey so that it will be waiting for me when I arrive.
Leander swimming the Hellespont, [...]

Uncover what you long for, and you will discover who you are.
- Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgimage
I don’t know where the wanderlust comes from, just that it has always been part of me.  I believe it comes from the ancestors, who traveled great distances searching for ‘home’.  I search for my own place in [...]

Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, Worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn’t matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times.
Come, yet again, come, come.
– Rumi
Ah, the wisdom of the Sufi mystic Rumi.  I have much more to say about the love poetry of this long-ago poet.  But not [...]

Somewhere at the crossroads, one finds the Wanderlust Cafe.  A meeting place, a place of respite, a  place to have some exotic tea or a stiff drink, eat fruits and simple food, a place to stow your pack in a safe corner, or lay out a few trade goods for sale.  Listen to foreign tongues, [...]