Göreme - a three time charm

Seems as if this narrative is taking longer than the actual vacation. Let's just attribute that to the demands of work, constraints of time and yes, of course, procrastination. Sometimes it's just too easy to get sidetracked by daily trivialities.

After taking leave of the welcome to Kapadokia wanderabout, it was time to make my way to Göreme and hunt down the hostel that would be called home for the first couple of days. Once back on paved roadways, it was just a short drive through Avanos and an accidental shot right through Göreme and almost to Uchisar. This is where the short attention span can really lead to some interesting discoveries, unfortunately, starvation required an illegal U turn (if there is any such thing on a rural Turkish roadway) and mad dash back to that single stoplight back the other way.

Navigating a car through a marketplace environment during the early evening only adds to the excitement of driving in the middle east, a Mr. Toads' Wild Ride adventure, and my sincerest apologies to the few pedestrians who did not quite make it into my line of sight. Faced with dozens of small signs pointing to "Cave House" this and "Cave House" that, it seemed the best option was to close my eyes and continue forward. At last it was there, the Nomad Cave House, found not with the assistance of directional signs, but through the guidance of a kindly old man waving me cheerfully away toward the correct destination and although Turkish was an unfamiliar tongue to me at the time, he seemed to be shouting, "... just a few hundred meters that way, my friend, and please, " he said, throwing some green fruit into my open window, " have these for your hunger!" Or so it seemed.