For a few years, until 1962, I lived near Izmir, with my family, while stationed there with the USAF. We were befriended by a family in Kar?iyaka and will always remember the hospitality of the Akkoyunlu extended family. Now, as I approach my 70th year, I am living in Mexico but always wish that I had the health and resources to move back to Turkey. Some of my best memories are there. I was able to return once in 1972 and found it very much changed. Perhaps I shouldn't go back after all this time and so much development; they say, "you can't go back." I remember, for example, being the only ones at Ephesus and being the only people picknicking on the beach at Ku?adas? when the town was a village and there were not hotels. Yeah, I'm old!