now this is what I call multiculturalism

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Chorizo baby.

finally some pics

it appears great memories do actually supercede lethargy, barely

EGYPT

neighborhood call to prayer as seen from our hotel balcony

cairo, mosque central

camels, sahara, aincient wonder = sweet

buzzing on the Nile

Valley of the Kings

Temple in Luxor

Some legit shit


Luxor Temple

More Luxor Temple, this time with some obelisk (the other one's in Paris, Place de Concorde)


playing on the Karnak columns


GREECE

The ol' Acropolis


now it's behind me

atop lykavittos hill, lookin sketchy


Leaving Athens


trying to find our hotel in Crete at the crack-ass of dawn


playing on walls, finding caves and scaling fortresses


Minoan ruins at Knossos, the most UN-real place ever


if you know the "mal tiempo"/storm/ticket/boat story, you know the critical import of this


a black beach, stantorini (there was a red and white beach too)


caldera, gorgeous santorini


romantic rooftop sunset dinner


something we saw


mykonos


found a dead lizard in naxos, picked it up, threw it at ryan


thessaloniki train station fun


northern greece countryside (lookin off towards some macedonia) from the train


TURKEY


sketchy 3 a.m. train border check where I narrowly avoided detainment

Me jumping in front of Hagia Sofia


inside is cool too


I wanted Ryan to look awkward in front of the Blue Mosque


pretty spectacular (my back, that is)


I eat simit; read the sign


basillica sistern under downtown istanbul


galata bridge and the bosphorus as seen from galata tower


just a little cruise up the bosphorous straits


pumped to set foot in asia for the first time


it's so sad that this is the "best" "beard" i can muster

You might would think

that my recent trip to the Mediterranean would be the catalyst to breaking the blogging malaise.....but no

instead, it's this sickness: