"Look, kids, hoodoos!"My dad must have said this fifty times on our family camping trip to Bryce when I was seven. Now I am on the other side of the world chasing hoodoos, or "fairy chimneys" as they call them here.Hittites showed up in Cappadocia in 1800 BC and carved shelters into the soft volcanic …

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Usually when we travel we avoid taxis because it feels like cheating and they can break a budget. I try to rely on public transportation and lots of walking. However, arriving at night in a land with no English cognates seemed like a good time to break the rule. I booked a bus from the …

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