Word: trabzon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience of hardship and inconvenience is largely the point of Journey to Kars. Travel is defined as an accumulation of instances of self-sufficiency. Being dumped into a remote town, at night and reservationless, is a challenge to be savored; cashing a traveler's check in Trabzon takes two banks an entire morning and involves the police. Months on the road lead to some choice distinctions ("It isn't the badness of bad hotels which is distressing, it's the badness of 'good' hotels"). There are also useful tips...
Because of the attacks on his wife and daughter-and the fact that the government has refused permission for his mother to immigrate-he is concentrating these days on another dream: a house he is building in his home town of Trabzon, on the Black Sea. "It's large, very large, 3,300 square feet in size," he says, gesturing expansively. "It will be a home big enough...