Just some views out the window.

The Sea of Marmara.  I think.  Or maybe the Aegean.  Or maybe the Mediterranean.  They all look watery.

I took a bunch of pictures like this.  I was trying to capture that housing development up there on the hill.  Notice that it appears to be uninhabited?  That's because it is.  Everywhere you look in Turkey -- I mean that: virtually everywhere -- you see half-finished houses and apartments and stores and just about any type of structure you can think of.  Half-finished.  Walls, roofs, stairs, and that's about it.  Just vacant shells of structures.  You can see right through them.  Half-finished.

There's another one.  Mete says this is because Turkish banks don't offer mortgage loans.  He says that all construction is done on a cash-only basis.  You build until you run out of cash, and then you stop.  Why cash-only?   Because Turkey has had a history of runaway inflation, and banks don't want to get locked into long-term loans based on the value of property.  Paper money that represents one Turkish lira may show the numeral one followed by six zeros.  One million lira represent a little less than a dollar.  I was a millionaire in Turkey.

There's another one up ahead.  You can see right through it.

Well just look at that!  Fresh fish!

There's a statue honoring the olive.  The area around Troy is noted for its olive oil.  I bought a bottle as a souvenir.

This is a salt farm. 

See the salt pond?

See the big pile of salt?

Hey look!  An unfinished, abandoned apartment building!

Holy moly!  Another unfinished, abandoned apartment building!

This is incredible!  Yet another really tall unfinished, abandoned apartment building!

Wendy doesn't understand why I'm taking her picture.  But actually I'm only pretending to take her picture.  In reality, I was hoping to get a picture of that kid in the background in his snazzy school uniform.