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Lonely Planet Community Highlights : turkey

Silk Road Nomads

 

Meet the Steward family. We dig their moxie! This California quartet left it all behind to journey indefinitely along the Silk Road of High Asia.

 

Now based in Istanbul, they are fast racking up a tome of adventures that would put Indiana Jones to shame, all the while living a pretty extraordinary life.

 

We caught up with Stan for a chat.

 

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Beyond the guidebook

 

Travel guides only go so far. You can learn alot about a place from books written about it, both by its people and outsiders looking in...

 

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