We rented a car in Izmir and drove to Selcuk today. Sketchy rental office? Check. Shitty old Hyundai? Check. Ticket for running a red light 10 minutes after renting the car? Check. Running across 10 lanes of traffic on the Turkish Autobahn to buy Turkish fastlane? Check. Getting hopelessly lost on the highway? Check. We did pretty good, all things considered. We had just enough time left to visit the Ephesus Museum in Selcuk, where I took these eerie photos. These are images of statues of the Roman Emperor Augustus and his wife, Livia, after radical and dangerous proto-Christians toppled them and "Christianized" them by carving crucifixes into their foreheads. Dude, creepy. I mean, the torturing Jesus thing would have been in recent memory, but still...
- Posted from my iPhone
