Time is money

Shortly after my last posting, I left the "cheap" part of my trip when I began the Europe portion of my trip (which I am doing with my sister).

My sister and I were in Turkey for almost three weeks and found the prices much higher than I expected. While clearly not as expensive as the EU countries, Turkey is about 2-3x more expensive than the average country I visited prior to it and roughly the same as non-New York/San Francisco America.

And after Turkey, we've spent a few days each in Munich, Salzburg, Vienna and we are now in Prague. Most things in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic are about 50% more expensive than in Turkey.

Given the expense of traveling, our limited time in Europe, and the many, many incredible sights, my sister and I have been unbelievably busy sightseers over the past month (and especially in the past week since leaving Turkey) as we don't want to "waste" any of our preciouis time here.

Which is all a long way of explaining that this time there's a reason why I haven't been blogging and therefore feel less guilty. I suspect it will be a long, long time before I'm able to put up more current photos on Picasa as well. Sorry!