{"id":2006,"date":"2011-09-02T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onmytodd.org\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2013-05-20T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:45:08","slug":"unnamed-rest-area-at-motorway-o-52-mersin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=2006","title":{"rendered":"Unnamed rest area at motorway O-52 &#8211; Mersin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We left our rest place early in the morning, heading west.<\/p>\n<p>In the early afternoon we met friends of Selim&#8217;s, left the truck behind, and made a 250km side trip in their car a an &#8220;archeological site&#8221; that Selim was interested in.  Located on the bank of a tributary of a reservoir lake, it supposedly used to be a Roman settlement, but there was nothing to see at all. The only interesting things to see were a couple of natural springs.<\/p>\n<p>We continued our drive towards Mersin at nightfall.<br \/>\nSelim dropped me off a few kilometers from Mersin&#8217;s city center after midnight. This guy left an awesome first impression of Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>I cycled on and found a good hotel and even food! I <3 Turkey!\n\nCycled: 12km\nHitched: 638km\n\n[gallery]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left our rest place early in the morning, heading west. In the early afternoon we met friends of Selim&#8217;s, left the truck behind, and made a 250km side trip in their car a an &#8220;archeological site&#8221; that Selim was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=2006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-the-caucasus-and-back","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4146,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}