Greetings, fellow wanderlust sufferers.  This is Ruth.

Leona has instructed me to post on her behalf, because:

“. . .  i [went] to wordpress to update my blog, and the website is blocked!! i
had no idea that turkey had such serious censorship! scary….

i did some web research and found out that the turkish government
banned wordpress last year because someone wrote some defamatory
comments about a turkish islamic creationist, adnan oktar.
HMMPPPHHH!!!! so then the government blocks access to all the other
one and a half million bloggers on wordpress. awesome. censorship will
definitely expedite turkey’s plans to join the EU.”

I am also supposed to give the Turkish government the virtual finger, so, um, consider that done.  Leona will post from Jordan next week, if she isn’t strictly reprimanded/detained in the meantime (JOKE JOKE HA HA ERRUMMM. . .).