Exploring!

Yesterday and the day before we rented a car and traveled around.  This is how we got to the Ihlara Valley and the Red Church. For our second day of adventure Dorion and I decided to just go driving.  The car we rented was a stick shift.  Neither Dorion nor I have ever driven a standard car before.  Thank goodness for Mary-Ellen, who helped us learn on the first day trip.  The second day I was the one to drive.  It is very hard.  So really a day of driving is extremely exhausting and stressful.  We drove out to a mountain because we thought it would be pretty and we also were tired of all the heat.  After almost stalling on a set of train tracks, five minutes after which we heard a train come barreling by, we went through a tiny village , and after getting a little lost found the road up the mountain.  The road up the mountain actually goes over other little mountains on the way to the big one.  The road also is made of dirt and is windy and scary especially on your second day of knowing how to operate a very temperamental vehical.  We made it this far before we decided we would like to live and turned around.  Next time we will rent a tougher car that is also automatic.
Here you can see our car.

 This was how far we still had to go...