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Continue reading →: On the Menu: BörekOn the Menu My last post kicked off an ongoing series called On the Menu. I shared a bit about my first experience with Tost. A key desire for our family in moving to Turkey is learning to live in a foreign culture and learning the foreign culture. Turkey is…
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Continue reading →: On the Menu: TostFood in Turkey “Strange” and “normal” are often in the eye of the beholder. This is especially true when it comes to food and drink. I have often heard from people who have lived in Turkey or visited here that the food is excellent. In some countries or regions of…
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Continue reading →: Why Turkey?“Why do you want to live in Turkey?” We have heard that question more than a few times since we decided to move here, and especially since we got here. It’s a fair question, I suppose. There are lots of reasons why we want to live here. At the top…
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Continue reading →: We’re Finally Home!The Duffel Bag Saga Comes comes to an end. These bags have loomed large in our family’s life for the last 6 months. They have been a sort of bookmark in our life. It was quite the journey getting them from America to Turkey, but we are here. We had…
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Continue reading →: The Best Cities in the WorldTravel + Leisure released their 2021 World’s Best Cities list back in September of this year. Lists like these are always high in beauty, history, culture, food, and more. This year, Istanbul placed #3 on the list. Bodrum also made the list at #16. At this point, I haven’t heard…
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Continue reading →: Moving Overseas is Making Me a MinimalistDiscovering Minimalism I don’t remember exactly when I discovered minimalism. I remember growing more and more interested in the idea through books like The 100 Thing Challenge by Dave Bruno and blogs like Zen Habits by Leo Babauta, among others. I also came across a number of blogs by “ultra…
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Continue reading →: Link: Things You Must Know Before Moving to Turkey
It is fun and really helpful to come across resources like this video. One particularly helpful takeaway for me was the bullet point list of requirements for a residence permit (“ikamet”). I hope over time to be able to share such helpful information for others who aren’t just traveling but…
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Continue reading →: We Booked Our Flights!We booked our flights and now the countdown begins! We have about a month and a half until we move our family to Turkey. In the process of preparing to move overseas, our family has essentially become minimalists. It’s nice. We are constantly reassessing what brings value to us and…
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Continue reading →: Just ImagineFor now, I am sharing beautiful photos I have found on Unsplash of our future home. As the title for this post suggests, we are dealing heavily in “what ifs” and “can’t wait untils” and “I wonders” right now. We have always wanted to raise our family in a new…
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Continue reading →: Hi there!Hi there! We’re the Pucketts. We love to travel, and we are excited to take our family (us and our 3 kids – not pictured) on the road to see and experience parts of the world we have never been to before. We love learning about cultures other than our…
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I’m Mike
Welcome! I share about life as a digital nomad family living and traveling Along the Silk Road. I write about travel, especially in and around Turkey, and language learning.
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