Just a relatively short update for all of you that have been wondering about the “deafening silence” for the past 3 weeks from your more typically ebullient and brevity challenged author. In case you missed the ending of my last posting, Christine and I flew up to Istanbul to meet our daughter Lia, hubby Brian and our two granddaughters Brynn (7) and Blair (5) as they got off their non stop plane ride from LAX to spend THREE WEEKS with us! This would be a grand gift at any time but having not been able to get together for almost two years now, this was a HUGEY big gift!
And a jam packed three weeks it was as we shared the Turkey we have come to know and love with them AND got to host them for the first real passage on Möbius! Christine will be posting a bit more about our wonderful two day trip with the six of us aboard Möbius as we cruised the awemazing coastline from Antalya to Finike and here are just a few photos from our other adventures in planes, trains, automobiles AND hot air balloons!
We walked and ate our way throughout the truly world class city of Istanbul for the first three days and this is just one of our many Turkish kahvaltı, aka breakfasts.
See Christine’s post for much more about all this.
Thumbs up from all the crew and so we headed out for the first actual passage on Möbius.
We bid our family adieux for their return flight to IST and then on to LAX the next morning and Christine and I drove the 9 hour trip back to Möbius.
Whew! We have spent the weekend savoring all these newest family memories and catching our breath from the wonderful whirlwind that our life has been for the past three weeks, indeed the past three years!
Tomorrow (Monday here) we will renew our efforts to get through the long and seemingly growing list of jobs to do in order to get Möbius fully sea worthy and ready for our next adventures. So we will resume our regular programming here on Mobius.World and do our best to continue to entertain and inform you about our ongoing adventures aboard the good ship Möbius.
Please tune in again next week for the next chapter and THANK YOU SO MUCH for your continued interest and comments. Be sure to add more in the “Join the Discussion” box below.
-Wayne
You needed this well deserved break from “work” to be with family!
Wonderful family trip!
Thanks Matt! It was indeed a MUCH needed break for Christine and me and more so such a joy to be able to finally have some time with our kids and granddaughters as we shared both our new home/boat and this awemazing country with them.
-Wayne
Glad you two and your family are having such a good time! Be safe.
Thanks Brandon. As the photos in our two recent posts yesterday, we had a fabulous time and are missing them already and looking forward to the next visit with them and our other family and friends as we are all able to travel more and more.
-Wayne
Great pictures.
I’m glad to see you protected Mobius with a proper nazar boncuğu.
Fair seas from now on.
Richard
Ex-Vicem 58
New Haven CT
Good eye Richard! (sorry, couldn’t resist) We always want all the help we can get when it comes to making Möbius as safe and seaworthy as possible so we’ve known from the beginning that we would have nazar boncuğu aka “evil eyes” on our bow. As I wrote in the post about installing these, Christine had spent several months hunting down the Goldilocks just right pair of glass evil eyes for Möbius and finally found these hand made blown glass versions in a little shop in Antalya. We are very proud to have this pair of eyes looking out for us and warding off any evil spirits as we head out to explore the world again.
-Wayne