Alex and Dad in a field of poppiesWe spent the night in Afyon (Hakan said it has the name of the Black Fortress of Opium) which is surrounded by fields of poppies and is reportedly the prodcer of 1/3 of the worlds legal opium. The son and daughter of Hakans Dads best friend set us up in an Otel and took us out to dinner, which was very nice of them!
Akşehir: home of the tomb of Nasreddin Hoca (statue), a famous Turkish comic/funnyman from the 1200s. We bought a book of some of his funny stories translated into English - they were funny but I think a little bit was lost in translation.
Fields of wheat make the road between Afyon and İzmir look a lot like Kansas - if you ignore the horse drawn carts full of women in headscarves on the freeway and the old Turkish couples harvesting grain with scythes in the fields.
Nevşehir: Dad got pulled over going 78 kph in a 70 zone speed trap and had to pay a fine on the spot - but we got a 25% discount for paying in cash... very small town
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