Sunday, March 9, 2008

Reminiscing again

A year ago Saturday, I had my first significant surgery of my adult life.

Seven months ago today (Sunday), I was scheduled to fly out of Seattle, but had to delay my flight for 24 hours since there was absolutely no way I could finish packing before my evening flight.

Seven months ago Monday, I left Seattle for New Jersey.

Six months ago today, I left Bergen, Norway to tour the fjords. By 11 pm that night, I had traveled across Norway to arrive back in Oslo on my way by week's end to Russia. Six months ago Monday, I left Oslo for Stockholm again; and six months ago Tuesday was September 11, when I took the overnight Viking ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki.

Five months ago Saturday, I left Helsinki on a rainy October afternoon after a two-week stay and took a ferry to Talinn, Estonia.

Four months ago today, I was in the middle of my tour of Turkey and had just arrived in Antalya on the Mediterranean coast. The next day I took my first camel ride!

Three months ago, I was lodged at the Marmara University hotel busily finishing my programming work.

Two months ago, I had just moved into the apartment here in Istanbul.

A month ago Saturday, my apartment-mate Jonathan had just come down with the flu--the same flu that roughly a week later would become my flu and then my pneumonia.

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