Greg Hewgill (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ghewgill) wrote,@ 2006-04-25 09:52:00 |
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turkey to iraq and back in six hours as a tourist (travelogue)
I just read a fascinating story online about a couple of guys who drove from Istanbul to Iraq and back, just on a lark:
The whole thing was just weird. I don’t quite know how to convey how surreal it is to leave a country that maybe, just maybe, might join the European Union and enter a country that is a poster-child for wrenching war-torn catastrophe and have everything around me dramatically improve all at once. But that's how it goes these days when you cross into Iraq from Turkey.
Michael Totten: Back to Iraq (six parts)
