Hiking the Glenn Highway through Alaska. Published in Asphalt Pilgrims.
Paul Salopek
Every hundred miles Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. Milestones reflect straight-line distances, but his walked distances are generally much longer. More on these waypoints here.
Every hundred miles Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. Milestones reflect straight-line distances, but his walked distances are generally much longer. More on these waypoints here.
“Let the deaf listen to the mute;
for only the soul can understand the unsaid and the unheard.”
— Yunus Emre (1240–1321)
A wraparound soundscape at this Milestone
This Milestone’s location on a map
Photos of the ground under Paul’s feet and the sky above at this Milestone
A brief question and answer with the first person Paul meets at this Milestone
Onur Akgül
Croupier at the Galaxy Casino, Kyrenia, Cyprus, age 22
Who are you?
I am a professional gambler. I work in Cyprus.
Where do you come from?
Adana, Turkey.
Where are going?
I just go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth all the time.
Observations from social media from the Milestone location
As this milestone inches toward the coast of Turkey, the Tweets and Instagram posts point outward past the sea. Some people post about the beautiful weather and swimming resorts along the shore, others about Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. Animals abound: a friendly pelican, and the ethics of leaving out water for stray cats. In Turkish, we learn, people say that the sun is born to mean that it has risen. And under this birthed sun, one woman takes her cup of coffee to think of “faraway places while listening to the sounds of the sea and the waves.”
A video showing the landscape around this Milestone
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