Konya, Antalya, Pammukalle, Aphrodisia, home10-16-24
		This is it, the last page and my way home! After the center of Turkey, I swung south toward the coast to get some beach and some aphrodisia time.  Just do me a favor, go to Turkey, it's worth your time.
		Outside the Mevlana museum in Konya, look how happy this lady is cleaning herself.  Cleanliness is a serious deal in the Muslim religion and I definately learned a few things.			After Konya I headed south to the beach town of Antalya which is like south Florida but with Germans.  All I did here was look at my view from the top of  my hotel and fish with my 30 cent rig with some kids down at the Roman harbor.  You can do all the water sports you want here and check out some great ruins but for me, the beach was enough.
		After a few nights chillin at the beach I went to Pammukalle where the old farming town has turned into a touristy place with these big salt ponds.  It was funny watching everyone walk in bare feet.  In turkey they let you walk in pitch black over sharp rocks and stuff for a quarter mile down hill to get to your hotel.  In the US they let you sue anyone letting you talk a walk like that.
					Here are the ponds everyone looks at, kind of like yellowstone.
					Debauchery city, aphrodisias Turkey, these ruins are way, way back in the hills and much much stuff went on here.  I think this place was kind of like the mustang ranch but with more marble.  The king built it for his mistress.  The original love shack.
		And then, literally right above the ponds (which were thought to be a place of healing) was the ruins of hieropolois.  I want to live in a place called hieropolis.  A medicinal spa type place for the Romans a couple of thousand of years ago.  Be careful though, one of the ponds emits deadly sulfur, every few years a tourist sneaks past the signs, sticks his head in the gas and you know what happens next.
					That's all folks. Thanks for keeping up with me, a trip of a lifetime, many lessons learned, the least of which is that everyone should be lucky enough to see the world and the beautiful people that live out there.  Stay tuned, Doug's next excellent adventure is in the works.
		Here is what $6 buys you, a 19 hour trip from Greece to Turkey, a bunk and some good reading time.  In the summer these bunks are dripping with drunk partiers, in the fall, you can share one of 60 beds with two other people.  Personally, I like the fall.