The Turkish Border

We left Nesebar, Bulgaria and headed for the Turkish Border. It was smooth roads all the way. When we got to the Border, I think we all thought it would be a walk in the park however we had a scare there that we were going to be held up for a bit. We had to go from one station to the next (four in total). First we went to show our passports. They sent up to the Visa station as we had to purchase Visa's (Canada was the most money of the bunch). Then back to the passport dep't where they stamped it and then back to the front gate as we had to register the bikes through. Once we did that, we had to purchase insurance and then we went to the final stamp of approval and everyone got through except the support vehicle, Mick the tour leader, the second Mick from Tasmania and myself. They needed a document from Mick's company stating that he was the owner and had permission to bring the vehicles through. He was going to send Murray with the group ahead as it appeared this might take a day. But, a few phone calls to his wife Veronica and we were headed to Istanbul. The last picture shows the types of roads that we rode from the border toward Istanbul. Beautiful!!!! This link allows anyone to track us by satellite. Check it out. http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=09B4ohNlYgxs6Tz4RRMpuCljQUmZsZaY0