Innovision Fall 2018

18 | INNOVISION MAGAZINE don’t want to just see and move on. I really like to spend time with locals and I speak some Italian and it’s great to socialize. Tell me about one of the greatest moments you’ve experienced during your travels. I went to the Sahara Desert and spent one night. It’s so amazing. I just put down a mat [laying down in the sand] and when you lie down your toes touch the stars. You have the whole sky to yourself. I didn’t sleep, you cannot sleep, and you’re so excited. After midnight the wind really picked up. You cannot understand culture just one morning you’re there, the boat dumps you, and you take a tour around and you go to your next destination. What are some of your favorite places? I love Sicily. Sicily is the melting pot of all Mediterranean culture. If you have to go to only one place, go to Sicily because there are DALGIN’S ADVENTURES On Dr. Dalgin’s most recent travels, he toured many cities along and around the Mediterranean coast. Over the course of his time there, he visited his home in Turkey, embraced the many people of Sicily, and was astonished by the stars above the Sahara Desert. Why did you decide to travel at this time in your life? Ever since I was in college I traveled with a backpack. It’s my hobby. I really enjoy seeing different cultures, landscapes, cultural geography and tasting the food. I just go for fun; to observe and see. I love the Mediterranean and its culture, so most of my travels are [there]. What put that in my heart [was], in my second or third year in college, I read Fernand Braudel’s T he Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II . Since then I always wondered, “Wow, this is something I really want to know more about”. What are some of the places you visited? I’m originally from Turkey, so [I have traveled down] the Turkish coast and [to] the great cities [as well as] Thessaloniki, Venice, Sicily and Athens. The Island of Corfu is an amazing island. There are so many cultures coming together. I hiked [through] the Albanian Alps. Then I went back to the mainland and Rome, the French coast, Spain, but that took me a couple of trips. Whenever I go, I “You cannot understand culture just one morning you’re there, the boat dumps you, you take a tour around and you go to your next destination.”