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what we are trying to do is stick to the
original Silkwood that went from Europe
to see on we are going to go to eight
different countries turkey Georgia
Azerbaijan Turkmenistan in to is Becky
Stan Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan and dive into
the Gobi Desert oh it's gonna be so cool
and couldn't find a better place to end
the trip than in Seon such a cultural
center so we start in Istanbul and open
sea on a thousand miles later I don't
know of anybody during the entire Silk
Road in 53 days on motorcycles except
LeBrons
you know it started with a dream and
slowly slowly thought start to take
shape this is not the tour that the just
happen overnight is a lot of planning
because you know it's so many things to
consider how far can you ride with a
bike
politically is it okay how are the road
condition can we get gasoline are there
hotels to host the group are there safe
parking at the hotels but it's all these
uncertainties in a global dose to that
makes it unique there are many tools
that do things you know in a civilized
way group riders is one of the wanted go
for long this is a long time faces the
truth it is this is a luxury adventure
tour you know we're staying in the
finest hotels everything is arranged for
us we just have to show up and ride our
motorcycles what makes it different is
something that riding the motorcycles
he's exceptional
life does not suck I've got a motorcycle
that's um all right people to ride with
life is good now we ride it's the pure
riding experience you know you're gonna
have beautiful terrain to go through
you're gonna have challenges on the road
the bumpy road traffic deaths or perhaps
a sandstorm thrown in there who knows
but always the essence of this juice is
really the cultures and the people we
don't just ride on from place to place
to place take a couple of snapshots and
say been there done that now we really
stopped a lot of places and go out and
our real tourists and we get to see some
places where many people never go
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one of the advantages of a motorcycle is
as you go through a country you see a
long part of the fabric of that country
traveling on motorcycles is a better way
to experience the places that you travel
through when I decided to do this trip a
lot of my friends and family were like
at first just like a why you doing
something like that but then telling
them where I was going and what country
is going through the part of world
everyone - a lot of them really didn't
understand it in respect to the
timeliness of what's going on in Iraq
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why do you worry that much about
political safety until about a month
before I left and I visited my brother
and he said you know there was a coup in
Kyrgyzstan over the weekend and I
thought he was joking and I've heard
been a little nervous about the reports
and stuff because you don't want to take
a group into a political situation but
it's very cool no it's okay
and for some reason if there should be
problems we can navigate the wrong all
of this this is an adventure and so you
take some risks to do it in the first
place
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you boil life down to it it's like you
got to breathe you got to heat and you
got to drink water and you got to see
the sunrise on another day we add to it
this idea of riding motorcycles and it's
the same thing you get up in the morning
we need to get through the day
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at Dawn's first light the wavering call
to prayer is a spiritual reminder of how
far we've come from home and family for
the first part of his journey that sound
will be a constant companion we begin
here at the port of Istanbul with a
shipping container that was sent more
than two months ago from the United
States I've been so much work as
preparing for this tour and so much
anticipation not a lot with some fear
about things not working out like to
contain or not deriving the bikes being
damaged in the container so the first
thing relief was sitting on the airplane
second relief was when the container was
open and see everything was perfect the
cargo 18 BMW motorcycles with a few
preparations the bikes will be ready to
take on the challenge of the Silk Road
we don't provide bikes we don't rent
bikes people ask us all the time about
that no you have to have your own bike
and it's really important because it
takes a lot to set off the bike to get
it the way you want it with the panniers
with your luggage system and so on and
so forth
and I also am a firm believer in that if
you have a rental you know your eyes
just a rental
you don't take as good care of it if
it's your own bike you have a lot of
pride and keeping it off and you really
need to do that on such a hard trip we
don't impose on anybody to take a
specific bike except we do have
guidelines bring a GE s style bike and
if you don't know what that is basically
it has to have white handlebars to be
able to handle it through adverse to
rain it has to have spoke the rims you
also have to have a bike with a decent
fuel capacity so you can go long
distances so a sweet bike we just feel
they don't take them this way
well that didn't sound too strong
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I think this is probably the best
fleeter bikes we ever had first of all
the people that are here they could take
whatever bike they wanted but they all
chose to take BMWs which is pretty
unique
the oldest bike is from 1981 the newest
is from 2005 there are four of the
latest energy yes I'm very excited to
see how it's all gonna work out I know
the old bikes are going to make it they
are there's proven ones little skeptical
to the new one but I'm crossing my
finger and looking forward to see that
it all works out the bikes out of the
container and we're waiting for a few
more things to happen such as an
inspector a customs inspector will come
we'll check the chassis numbers license
plates and then they'll probably have a
sign a couple more papers and let us go
this says how customs is it's quite an
extraordinary process because these guys
here are used to container loads of
stuff like raw materials or finished
products but they don't have second and
motorcycles coming out of containers
especially coming here for touring
purposes so we're opening a lot of new
gates for these guys and making some
things happen for the first time
my name is Laura Seaver I'm 37 years old
I live in Seattle and I'm riding what I
affectionately called the beast 1994 BMW
are 100 GS PD
well I'm hunts mules I'm 58 years old
and on different now in New York City
best town in the world my name is Jay
Yannick and I'm 67 years old and I'm
riding a BMW our 11 50 GS adventure
putting the bass for a better group
everybody seems to be getting along and
pretty much equal riders a lot of my
friends asked me are people that I would
tell that I was going on this trip
they're like oh so are you going with
friends of yours do you like so is it a
groupie friends whatever I said no I
don't know a single one of them most
people that come on this tour they have
either they've been riding with us
before been referred from friends or
seen us on the Internet
I've been working with this group for a
long time we have a forum on the
Internet where we communicate to each
other and prepare psychologically and
practically how to get everything
together so many people on this trip are
new friends some of them are people that
are my favorite people in the world some
of the guys on our trip our bit older if
I may say like well how these old guys
but these are hardcore guys I mean these
aren't just like you know you know
they've they've lived they've lived a
life you know they're pretty incredible
people I mean these are hardcore
I mean this isn't your average average
people
to go on a tour like this you have to be
a very special person it's not another
weekend trip to the Alps all respect to
the people that your tours there but
this is really a big commitment for
anybody that go into signing up for
globe registers it's a lot of commitment
in time and money but also in your head
you have to be turned into this kind of
travel because it's not going to be easy
and in reality when people see the scope
of the tour and the deep commitment is
it's not it's a lot of money it's a lot
of time and you really have to be
dedicated so just mentally I think most
of these people are already ready to go
one or two thing I was most concerned
about having ridden Istanbul before was
an instant booth traffic and this time
it worked out fine hellgate was able to
arrange it where when we picked up the
bikes we took a ferry to almost for a
hotel was didn't miss most of this to
move fast
on the other side of the water Asia on
this side Europe since the beginning of
time it has been one of the busiest and
most important waterways in the world
the Bosphorus straits a channel 20 miles
long that connects the Black Sea to the
Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean the
water buzzes with Commerce traveling
through the Straits ships and oil
tankers local fishing and passenger
boats a great introduction to Istanbul
the Istanbul is the last stop in Europe
and the first stop in Asia Turkey itself
not just the stumble but turkey itself
is a bridge between the East and the
West
and by the way Istanbul is a unique city
in a sense that it is the only city in
the world that is located on two
continents Asia and Europe
Istanbul was the western terminus of the
old Silk Road and the end of the journey
for many today it's a thriving
metropolitan jewel where the East meets
the West and the starting point for our
journey a short ferry ride from the port
brings us to our Basecamp for a day of
explorations we're staying here at the
Blue House Hotel in the heart of the old
city
the eastern roman empire chose this city
as the capital city constantine the
great in 330 ad came here and he loved
the location he said I'm moving my
Empire's capital here so he named it
after himself called it Constantinople
is and that's how the city started here
Eastern Roman Empire capital of the
Eastern Roman Empire the sixth century
was an age of glory for the eastern
Roman Empire it was during this time
period that the Basilica cistern was
built to store water for the Great
Palace inside the underground cavern a
forest of marble columns the Egyptian
obelisk was brought here in AD 390 just
before the division of the Eastern and
Western Roman empires the base is carved
with pictures of the Roman Emperor and
his family while hieroglyphics and the
column described the victories of the
Pharaoh and a sacrifice to the god of
the Sun almond raw it was originally a
third taller but was broken by the time
it arrived in Istanbul at more than
3,500 years of age it's definitely the
oldest monument in the city
easton bulls grand bazaar is as vibrant
and exciting as it ever was
with 18 gates and 60 streets inside it's
one of the largest covered markets in
the world and a maze of colorful
trinkets anata teas souvenirs carpets
clothing textiles and antiques if you
want to buy a carpet first you must know
if it's handmade or not when you do
carpet like this you see there is no not
one of the pile when you take come out
it's easy and that means this is not a
handmade persian Indian Chinese they are
using single not like this you know this
is this is Turkish
this is Persian not which is you see not
therefore not system this is Turkish
Kurdish now goldish double knotted much
tighter much durable you know stronger
and that way is different you know
between our purpose and other countries
and that is ten minutes it's it's good
you know because you can use forever
handmade purpose different colored
spices of the original commodity in the
Egyptian or spice market Istanbul second
largest covered bazaar is filled with
the fragrances of the exotic east
outside of the spice market the new
mosque only in istanbul could a building
this old be called new the busy square
overlooks the Golden Horn an important
waterway that separates the old and new
parts of European Istanbul the tower in
the distance has dominated the skyline
since 1348
standing on the steps of the new mosque
one gets a sense of Istanbul as a city
at the crossroads of time geography and
culture its identity forever mixed
between the ancient and the modern the
East and the West
religious and secular
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ýstanbul is still the commercial
historic and cultural center of Turkey
and its contradictions are most felt
here
in its heart mystical caddesi is a long
pedestrian street in the taxi mopping
district a place for locals and tourists
alike the old tram cars shuttle up and
down the hills past luxury boutiques
fashion houses cafes restaurants and
theaters the street ends in Taksim
Square a huge open plaza and hub of
modern Istanbul
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in the evening
Istanbul is a playground of
entertainment options everything from a
casual walk through one of her many
neighborhoods to performance music art
and theater right across the street from
the blue house nightlife in the form of
an outdoor Bazaar and cafe
the only thing that rivals the
popularity of a hookah is the backgammon
board just a few blocks away in a
different neighborhood
the city has a long history of harboring
European gypsies and an annual festival
of gypsy music takes place here each
spring
as the evening progresses the bonfires
begin one by one the superstitious
spectators jumped through the Sparks
looking to add a little luck or love to
their lives it's a celebration
that goes on well into the evening
in the middle of the night well after
all the fires have died or been put out
only smoldering remains and an Effy's
beer can are left to tell the story but
it continues with more fires and more
fire jumpers in every back alley deep
into the ýstanbul night
the next morning at 7:00 a.m. it's time
to ride after sending the last email to
family and friends back home we leave
the blue house and begin the big ride to
Xian we have 8,000 miles to ride and 50
days to do it in along the way anything
can happen and probably will
and in many ways this symbol is still my
favorite city it was before I came in
this tomb door several times and I still
love instability it's just got such
great sights well it's a secular society
it has a [ __ ] influence and
architecture mixed with some European
this makes it truly special we got off
the ferry from Istanbul heading on into
Turkey the roads were beautiful and the
traffic was minimal and good curves
paradise for in short order the road
brings us to his neck or ancient Nicaea
the birthplace of the Nicene Creed an
important stop on the Silk Road during
the Ottoman times in the 16th and 17th
centuries his nick was famous for its
tiles now still decorating mosques and
palaces in Istanbul this tile workshop
rediscovered the process of production
and has started to reproduce tiles using
the traditional techniques musically
famous for its 17th centuries all these
Imperial mosques and palaces that were
built for the Sultan's in Istanbul and
other cities and we're all decorated by
these beautiful tiles that were
exquisitely and exclusively produced for
the Sultan and his his relatives and
friends about 10 years ago these people
here they're all professors and they
they know the science of trial making
they decided to establish a foundation
to reproduce these styles based on the
original techniques so they've done lots
of readings they've excavated in kilns
they've analyzed the chemical structure
of these dyes and all the minerals that
they used back in the ottoman times and
they've come really close to the real
thing
one of the ways to distinguish a really
weak child is the white structure
actually they call it straight white on
the eye
it's sort of about the same tone in
terms of its whiteness so if you've got
an eye and if you've been looking at it
and appreciating beauty or physics you
can actually tell them apart especially
from the color sophistry after leaving
the historic village of his neck we're
on the road to Bursa
the first capital of the Ottoman Empire
and still the most important silk
producing Centre in Turkey after parking
the bikes a chance to visit a major stop
in the Silk Road a 15th century Bazaar
where silk is still the main commodity
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many different kinds of silks you have
it we have tree comments this is crepe
silk the more shining one is sateen silk
I don't know if you can see the last one
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this one but I don't know English it's
not that heavy as it gets heavier it's
more clean pictures we did three
pictures of his this is the kiss then
this is the girls das mädchen in the
courtyard of the silk bazaar a small
mosque built in 1493 along with a tea
garden and a lively pastry vendor
gentlemen I guess Joyner there's
anything in the morning
preparations for the day's ride up into
the bathroom contacts teeth brush get
dressed packed bag get everything
together one last check down to the
bikes uncover it
put the cover away put everything on the
bike go in breakfast back out fuss
around and wait to go this whole area is
really nicely seating maps are a big
part of any globe writers adventure and
everyone has a map book with a
day-to-day information needed to get us
to our next location
we're also navigating by satellites and
everyone has a GPS on their bike
well the beauty of this Carnot trip and
you send them off in the morning and you
meet that night at the hotel so
basically in the morning we do a little
briefing you set up your GPS and then we
just take off and the reason we can do
that and feel good about it is that we
have coordinates we have waypoints along
the way so you actually have a route we
teach people to use the GPS if they
can't use it and if you feel uncertain
you will tag on to a guide or even with
the chase vehicle I think people that
ride motorcycles automatically know when
they get on a motorcycle they have to be
more alert than when they get in their
car or pickup car you can't write down
the road on your bike and drink a cup of
coffee and listen to the stereo and etc
you won't fall asleep riding on a
motorcycle if you do only be once people
burn you're with different friends you
know some have different writing styles
you find out who is good for you and
usually we encourage people not to ride
more than two or three together or
they'll say no I'm gonna use this day
this is so beautiful I'm going to stop
every five minutes take pictures meet
the locals it's entirely up to yourself
this is central Anatolia the Turkish
Heartland our route avoids the sprawling
suburbs of Ankara by traveling the
backroads through small Turkish towns
and villages a gritty industrial steel
mill outside of Safranbolu does little
to announce our arrival at this UNESCO
World Heritage Site
safranbolu is best known for its
collection of old ottoman houses an
unusually large number of these wood and
stucco homes survived today a friendly
policeman guides us through a maze of
alleyways to the place we'll be staying
tonight an important rest stop for many
centuries an old caravanserai an ancient
camel Motel that provided shelter food
and care to caravans on the Silk Road a
forerunner of today's truck stops this
caravanserai was built in 1645 and was
recently restored and turned into a
hotel during the Silk Road all the
civilizations that control Turkey
supported and built a lot of different
structures to enhance the trade on the
Silk Road and among them are actually
the caravanserai
these caravans arise were totally free
of charge and all these caravans could
stay up to three nights free of charge
the cameras were taken care of they were
put into the stables they were fed and
of course the people were also given
food and there are about 250 of these
caravans arise in Turkey most of them
are in ruins but some have been restored
and some have been nicely turned into
hotels
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outside the caravanserai a labyrinth of
cobbled streets although saffron Baloo
is popular with Turkish tourists it's
relatively unknown to foreign visitors
the pace of life in this small town is
worlds away from cities like Ankara or
Istanbul
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on day six of the Silk Road adventure we
get an early start and heads south
across the plains of central Anatolia
once again
bypassing the congestion of Ankara to
the west
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and here we have the market day today
Sunday today is the weekly market day
what happens here is people from the
surrounding villages bring their goods
to sell and also merchants from the town
the bigger towns bring their goods like
hardware you're gonna see some poses
some pliers barbed fire wire some pipes
like this guy is carrying you now so
this is how they of the villages here
meet their needs so the merchants bring
them every every Sunday it's been a
great ride I think for me having been in
Turkey before knowing that it's a
beautiful place to ride is seeing the
older people they haven't most of the
people we are traveling with have not
been here before and you're seeing them
being so happy and content and coming
telling stories to you every day oh I
love that part of it too they travel
for millions of years three large
volcanoes on the central Anatolian
plateau erupted and spewed hot volcanic
ash over the region after centuries of
erosion by wind and rain a strange
landscape of fairy chimneys and
pinnacles was born but it wasn't just
nature that carved the rocks early
inhabitants dug out homes churches and
entire cities in the soft rock
this is Cappadocia a region in the heart
of turkey's a striking landscape is
beautiful scenery for a motorcycle
adventurer and on the third day of
riding we arrived at this crossroads of
the ancient Silk Road our destination is
orga a small city in a steep valley our
accommodations of cave hotel in the
morning more historic caves this is the
Kaimuki underground city that was carved
out of the soft volcanic rock mainly to
provide shelter during times of attack
and siege this is what a GPS would
really be useful but Garmin I guess
doesn't do any good here they probably
had a secret passage or entrance because
this is the stables obviously they would
not be able to bring down those animals
all the way down through these narrow
passages so this is where they kept kept
the animals right at the entrance and it
was used many times in history and now
it's open to visitors so we got to walk
down 9 stories down and crouch down a
little bit go through tunnels so if you
have stiff knees let me know
it started in the fourth and fifth
centuries ad that's a nice big room
there to see Cappadocia CEMA Spain today
a Church's the gorram a open-air museum
has the best collection of elaborate
Byzantine frescoes it's quite
interesting because this church looks
like it's a real proper Church but
remember all these churches are carved
out of Iraq and therefore these four
columns have no structural function take
these columns away and it's not going to
collapse because it's carved so the
people who carved these churches way
back in the 9th and 10th centuries
wanted to make it look like a proper
Church perhaps they were inspiring to
those grand churches like Hagia Sophia
in Istanbul so let's talk about the
frescoes a little bit up in the dome we
have christ pantocrator' which means
creator of all he is doing the sign of
benediction and holding the book of
gospels we have the four evangelists in
the corners you can even see their names
Matthew John Mark mark here and Luke
here and I'm sure you recognize other
scenes crucifixion right there again
remember the depiction of faces in Islam
religion is not allowed so that's one of
the reasons why these early Muslims
defaced most religious figures
we cannot control the direction that's
important we can go up and down and we
can control our height for them actually
a few centimeters and some of the time
we'll be going up for example standing
right when you climb up for a really
good contour lunar you've got to have
the right criteria and basically you
need a perfect climate where the air
masses are so stable but you can control
your height to within a few inches and
then you need the right kind of
topography so that you can skim the
different undulating landscape for
contours using the heat of the balloon
to raise yourself as you reach an
obstacle and let it cool off and drop
down on the other side when you when you
reach your your you're cooling off
period and this obviously is the best
ideal environment for that we've got the
right stable air masses and we've got
the fabulous progress in a way
the area was basically laid layer upon
layer of volcanic ash back 5 million
years ago or so and then with the
ensuing erosion with the frost on the
rain and a little bit of wind and
basically the sort of general crumbling
of the soft volcanic ash it's created
these very strange pinnacles
and you've got these some textures are
stronger than others so it was hard
enough for people to come in and dig out
caves and then they became more
sophisticated and dug out churches and
then came and painted them and it's it's
an absolute playground for a blue the
landscape is amazing this eroded
volcanic ash I guess and so there's all
kinds of just the natural formations and
then also what people over over
thousands of years have dug out they
they fed and pigeons to harvest the the
guano to fertilize their fields so
there's little little alcoves in there
and honeybee hives and churches and all
kinds of things carved into the into the
rock it's great to share this experience
with so many people I mean we're flying
reasonably big balloons average capacity
about 10 passengers in each balloon and
to share that experience for most people
it's the first time they go up in a
balloon and then you've also got
Cappadocia to share and it's a stunning
landscape it's a spectacular environment
it's the beauty of the flying here is
really a sharing it with the passengers
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in the beginning I think the biggest
challenge was to read and get the
dynamics of the group just seeing how
people were going to interact learn
about people's daily struggle with their
bike handling skills there are some
people that are weaker than all the
vehicle
I feel like a model many times you know
I'm looking after my kids and trying to
take care of them when you have a big
group of 17 bikers 22 people all
together you have to have some ground
rules because the last thing I want to
say is that people will talk resentments
against each other it's a lot of
different personalities and I feel that
sterling and me we have to be like staff
and watching and be mediators to get it
to be a smooth engine running
the people you're with makes it a good
ride if it's smooth pavement to be
twisties consistent smooth twisties
makes it good the adventure
taken off of a side road and just taken
off machine where it leads some cases of
this lettuce into cow pasture and into
nowhere or in the towns or in the farm
in the pastures so there is no one good
road it's just all adventure on day
eight we ride north across the central
Anatolian plain towards Amasya another
stop on the Silk Route on the way we
passed through hatice's the capital city
of the Hittites dating back to 1800 BC
the Hittites ruled in the Middle East
for about six hundred years this was
once a very powerful City with stone
walls now in ruins
high above the north bank of the river
the ancient rock-cut tombs of the Pontic
Kings watch over the picturesque city
below Amasya is located on the banks of
the ancient river iris it was once the
capital of the Mithra Dadich kingdom it
was also the training ground for many
ottoman princes before they became
Sultan's located in a rocky ravine with
the river running right through the
middle of it
Amasya is a picture perfect example of
Turkish pride and they have a lot to be
proud of the world's first historian and
geographer was born here after leaving a
mossy and traveling through Europe and
Africa
Strabo wrote dozens of books on history
and geography much later in time in 1919
the father of modern day Turkey Mustafa
Kemal or Ataturk hid out in Amasya
after escaping occupied Istanbul it was
here where he met with friends and
fathered the modern principles of
Turkish independence the timbered houses
on the north bank of the river are
particularly fine examples of Ottoman
civil architecture from the 19th century
these buildings usually have two stories
the rooms on the ground floor were
grouped around a spacious hall and
included kitchens servants quarters and
dining rooms with the upper floor
consisting of bedrooms as most people on
this group must have noticed the life in
the city and life in the village are
totally two different lives in Turkey
this life in Istanbul or any other big
city like Ankara or isn't it
is you know you have to hurry somewhere
you have to work hard to make a living
and it's just like any other western
city but whereas in the countryside when
you travel to the remote parts of Turkey
like we did on this trip you see life
going at a different pace first of all
it revolves around nature it revolves
around agriculture and because most of
it is still based on farming and
therefore as you ride through the
Turkish countryside you see a lot of men
just sitting around they it looks like
they do nothing play backgammon drink
tea but you know it's a part of their
cycle and but there's some periods of
the year that they really work hard go
to the fields one of the town trying to
sell their crops there for I think
during these trips people come to an
understanding of what other cultures go
through how their life revolves and what
hardships they have to endure I think
one starts appreciating the agriculture
life even more you know when we sit on
the table our food is ready you can just
simply order but to think about the
steps all the phases different phases
that that little plate goes through that
food on your plate I think one needs to
travel and I call this just discovery to
the throne everybody has a different way
of looking at things somebody looks at a
woman working in a field and say hello
to a woman but then somebody might say
wow you know it's hard life and that's
what they've life is and she just
doesn't know anything but working in the
field so it's all about how you look at
life and how you perceive it
no cars here we say that we are gonna
have tea with the mayor what was that
all about
because veni vidi vici we Came we saw we
conquered this is the town where Julius
Caesar said that famous famous word as
we stopped here we're standing in front
of the mayor's office is inviting us for
tea so this is Turkish hospitality for
you we are right now here in Silla and
we are going to go to to howl and then
tomorrow to to me
there's been a really good trip so far I
think one of the highlights has been
meeting a lot of the local people in
Turkey just some of the people are so
friendly and they're so easy to meet
like when we stopped alongside the road
people come up and give us food and want
to know where we're from who we are
where we're going just a lot a lot of
questions they're very interested in
what we're doing another highlight was
when we went through the Pontic
mountains the Turkish Alps are just
beautiful some of the most beautiful
mountains I've ever seen
good curvy roads and the scenery is just
outstanding you go from flat to mountain
nuts
you've got roads which oh okay I'm not a
real fan of gravel roads but they were
they were rideable when you would hit a
section that was being constructed but
the mountains will look like those in
the Appalachians and then they'll look
like the mountains in the Rockies as you
get close to the Black Sea and up in
elevation with snow top it's really
beautiful
Turkey I believe offers everything that
a biker once it's got a lot of history
rich heritage and obviously we also have
what a motorcycle wants a good country
with lots of scenery and twisties and
for the off-road enthusiasts a lot of
good off roads and I think to top them
all I believe turkeys best offer is its
people
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