The last stop of the lone traveller is always where she wants to be. I am back, and this time for good. The last four weeks were the fastest in my life. We traveled to Turkey, Istanbul with Kotmish. Then we made a road trip to Bulgaria, several villages, towns and cities in just one week! We returned to Turkey, already exhausted, and having stayed only one day, headed to Southern Turkey, first Izmir, then Marmaris, and then the Greek islands. The first time, I fell in love with a place-Rhodes. Forget America, Turkey, Bulgaria. Go to Rhodes. I felt like staying there forever, but my visit was short. I have a nice tan, the first in years, and I have to admit it looks good on me-maybe I should keep tanning until I am completely bronze and get skin cancer in the process….I also managed to squeeze a few friends into my hectic schedule, as well as professor B. Aksoy. He went out of his way to see me, I was late due to a prior appointment with a friend, and he panicked because he doesn’t have a cell phone. He bought me ice-cream at the lobby of the Marmara, and we chatted like good old friends, he is such a sweet academic, the first that I know of his kind. He did his best to help me with ideas, suggestions, and he even called a few publishing houses to establish contact. He also gave me a long list of dictionaries, and we spent the evening browsing all the bookstores in Taksim to find he exact same edition, writer, editor etc that he recommended. Will write more soon, very soon indeed. My impressions of Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece are mixed, and I need to relax a bit in order to decide which is the worst of all.