Plane tickets from my parents’ house near Nürnberg, Germany to Istanbul, Turkey cost about $450. Driving to Istanbul would be a 1,200 mile one-way ordeal, and with my van scoring 33 MPG (the thing is a beast at the fuel pump) and gas costing $5 per gallon, that meant almost $400 in fuel alone. Add tolls, and it would actually cost more to risk ending up stranded on a rural Bulgarian highway next to a broken 1994 Chrysler minivan. So naturally, I chose that route.

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