Part of my research during my Sabbatical leave is to get in touch with Turkish entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. So I did my explorative trip last weekend with my buddy Yasser. Yasser is a doctor who is currently in Irvine but leave soon to start his next job. In the meantime, he has time and he is a good trip company. Thanks to him, we could stop by Monterey. Not an exhaustive trip but it was good to drive through the Pacific Coast Highway. I haven’t seen Monterey itself and only after I learned that it was where Steinbeck lived and narrated about. Maybe on my next trip…
I have visited Berkeley and Stanford campuses. I have met with some friends/ colleagues I haven’t seen for ages. In fact, I haven’t seen Hasan, for instance, for 18 years who, in the meantime, became quite a successful physicist. We had had lots of catching up with Halil, a Political Science postdoc at Stanford. Another friend, Deniz, now works at Apple.
The trip energized me. I am working on several plans/projects/writings about which I will post from time to time… [and for my careful readers, here is the link to the Google Photos album about the trip…
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