Enjoyed your account, as always. I well recall the red slime I encountered

on an R60/2 in 1984.

Thank goodness cucumbers are less slippery, or Turkish roads would be

virtually impassable.

Near Iznik I was somehow talked into going to a local wedding "for tea" by a

Turkish R51/3 owner. That was at 10 AM. I was allowed to go home twelve

hours later. I haven't had Arak, Ouzo, Pastisse, Pernod or Grappa since. To

cite Mark Twain, "I have had hangovers before, but this was a masterpiece."

I saw Kangus as well, but never up close. Just last week, however, I saw

Dick Cheney.

Robert at OTL

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