Dear Friends and Foes,

Evliya Celebi was an Ottoman traveler who has written extensively on his journeys throughout the Empire and beyond. When I started my travels abroad (mostly for graduate education), my family started to call me, Miss Evliya Celebi as I hardly ever spent more than six months in one single country before hopping on a plane and changing locations, even if it were for a few weeks. I personally grew to like this name very much, a personality who likes traveling and what is more who likes writing about these travels. Given the fact that the travels we make in life are not always between geographical places but also to abstract locations, given that our journeys are also within our own minds or to other people's minds or long stays to others' hearts and lives etc., I found it most appropriate to describe this logbook as one for a meeting of the minds. In the end, a meeting of the minds is the ultimate purpose of any journey I start out.

Join the ride...

Best,

Miss EvliyaCelebi