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.
Short flight back from Istanbul to Antalya, test run for our new mariners with an overnight anchor at the nearby Rock Island to celebrate Brynn’s 7th Birthday!

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.
Slipped into this little spot that the girls dubbed as “Mermaid Cove” for another night on anchor and lots of swimming.
Onward to some land based adventures, we went white water rafting in Köprülü Canyon National Park which is about 90 minutes from from where we lived in Antalya.
Swimming through the thermal mineral …….
…….  pools of Pamukkale
Climbing through the ruins of Sagalossos dating back to 600 BCE.
Three nights in our two Cave Hotel rooms which were literally carved into the volcanic rock cliffs in Cappadocia.
Up the next morning at 3AM to catch the sunrise in …..
……. our very own Hot Air Balloon.
Floating over the otherworldly “Fairy Chimneys” of Cappadocia
90 minutes went by SO fast!
Until we gently touched down with the expert touch of …….
……  our favorite pilot Hakan (Black shirt far Left) from our previous ride with him 2 years ago for a champagne finish!
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.

Where we had left her peacefully tied up in Finke marina which will be our home port for the rest of this year.
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