Time Travel: Nea Anchialos 2025

Several years ago, My Favorite and I got to the point where, when it came to his work (and our primary source of income), all we wanted was to find a steady job, keep our heads down, and stabilize. And we thought we had done that. Had a nice gig, based out of Red Bluff, CA, pretty good stuff. 

Except they banished him to a pointless contract. They didn't use his Chinook skills; in fact that told him he wasn't welcome in the Chinook program. The didn't use his long-line skills. They didn't use his powerline skills. They hired him because he was plug and play (he could step into any of the contracts they had, not just fire fighting, and fly any of the aircraft they had), then they didn't do it. Instead they put him in Marin County, CA, and forgot about him. 

Now, we loved Marin County. Made some friends, fell in love with towns, and even posted here a lot. Truly, we looked into moving to the area, especially since we were going to be working for a company in northern California! Except... And you know there's an except because it's rotor wing aviation.

Except...at the beginning of next season, he went in to just say hi, do the beginning of the season chit-chat with the chief pilot... Who said, "You don't do anything except the Marin County contract. You aren't bringing a lot to the table."

Wait...what...?

Before My Favorite could even defend himself, the chief pilot continues with, "In fact, we're looking at taking you to seasonal instead of full-time next year."

By the time My Favorite walked out of the office, he was already texting his network. When he explained to me what happened, my first question was "Who have you called?" We know what "taking you seasonal" means.

That very afternoon, we were leaving the grocery store when his phone rang. I loaded the groceries while he went and found a quiet, shady spot. By that night, we were composing his resignation letter and working on getting home.

A month later, we were in Greece. There will be more posts about Greece ~ some good, some not so good ~ but this gets us started.

Heavy iron in Athens

 The adventure continues...

More Jumping In

 NOTE: A lot of the pictures here are also posted in the previous post about Apollo's temple. No, I'm not going through and editing. Let's be honest; we're lucky I'm posting. HA!

When My Favorite and I arrived in Türkiye, we got to Side late in the afternoon. We went for dinner at Alya Steakhouse, but more or less collapsed. The next day, though, he had a day off and we enjoyed it thoroughly. Because he had been here before, he had places he wanted to show me and I had places I wanted to see. It was a good combination.

When we were assigned to Greece last year (more on that soon-ish, I promise), we were so freaking excited. But the reality didn't match the myth. When we were assigned ~ managed to manipulate ourselves into ~ Türkiye this year, we were excited because we'd enjoyed Istanbul last year so much (more on that too!) and because it meant catching up with Sam. Little did we know that Türkiye is everything we expected from Greece and more.

The adventure continues...

Ruins and Apollo's Temple

June 11, 2025

Here is the only way this is going to work: I'm going to post a shit ton of pictures with the date they were taken. Until otherwise noted, we're in Türkiye.

Unless we do it this way, if I try to write wonderful stories ~ and my god, are there wonderful stories ~ I won't ever get anything posted. And the whole point is to try to start getting things posted again. Just sayin...

We arrived in Side, Manavgat, Türkiye on 10 June. By 11 June, we were sane and could leave the room.