this was çanakkale the morning i left for troy -- foggy as ever.
Three Fun Things.
1. saw dolphins swimming in the dardanelles. twelve fins in two groups. tourists took pictures with their cell phone cameras as townspeople fished from the boulevard. a tourbus arrived and everyone got out to come see. a cat decided to come check it out too, pawed its way through the maze of legs, down to a rock where it sat looking out, visions of tuna fish going through its little mind.
2. made a friend at the info booth at troy.
this little guy had the same idea as me, warming up in Excavation House. when i went in he was sitting on one of the chairs sleeping. i sat down to check my guidebook and he meowed, looked at me and climbed onto my lap. then climbed up on my shoulder while i read the informational displays on the walls. thin like a rat.
3. heard some bob dylan on the radio. most of the stations here play turkish music, unlike the imported tv channels. but coming through the mountain pass before assos i switched onto a channel where a voice on the feminine side of androgynous was singing a bouncey cover of Fourth Time Around:
it was then that i got up to leave, and she said, don't forget :
everybody must give something back for something they get
i came late home to a quiet house. mo had been busy, installed a fireplace in the bedroom upstairs and an infrared heater in the bathroom -- like a toaster, only for humans. good to be back. learned a few things. more to follow.
