Rumi

"The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you,
not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers do not finally meet somewhere.
They are in each other all along."

I heard Rumi was buried in Turkey but found out today the gravesite is a nine hour drive from Istanbul. I won't be experiencing that, but he is on my mind here. There's a whirling dervishes and Sufi music concert I may go see.

I saw the Topkapi Palace and my first Mosque today in old Istanbul. The palace was the home of many Sultans for centuries.

We went to the rooftop bar at the hotel tonight which is all glass. Impressive sight - especially the bridge over the Bosphorus which separates Europe and Asia.