Gail and Frank's travels west from Turkey: May 28th

Hello,

Frank and Gail asked me to share some excerpts from their travels west from Turkey over the past month.

We picked up our friends Jack and Annie S. at the Dalaman, Turkey airport at midnight on May 18th and had a wonderful tour of Marmaris for two days, taking them out for Turkish breakfast near Cleopatra's beach and touring the city of Marmaris during the day. They got a taste of the huge marina (Yat Marin) here in Turkey which has been ALCID's base for the past four winters. We left for the island of Rhodes, Greece on the 20th, anchored off the old harbor and toured the large walled city and it's beautifully preserved Crusader Castle. Next we sailed to the island of Patmos, the site of the cave where the Apostle John herd the "Revelations" from God from a crack in the ceiling. An 80 mile sail then took us to the most photographed island in Greece, Mykonos, with its whitewashed buildings, narrow alleyways and beautiful windmills high above the harbor. We took a day sail over to the small island of Delos just 4 miles to the west, which was the center of the ancient Greek world, both geographically and politically. The king of the gods, Zeus, was supposed to have been born there. We all were awestruck to think that 30,000 people lived on this island 5 miles long and 1 mile wide!.