We continued our journey together and Cindy turned out to be not afraid when driving her van called Thor over the often demanding roads of northern Turkey.

One day, we had found a nice spot on Google Maps. It had been looking like a super nice place next to a lake. When we reached that place the track leading there turned out to be very muddy and soon Thor got stuck and we had to recover him with Rosinante. In the end we found a nice spot to stay next to the “lake” which turned out to be a swamp.

And Cindy and I developed our signature meal: wraps with vegetables and Pampe (a German word for kind of a spread for bread).

Yolo was doing very well after Cindy had saved her from starving a couple of weeks ago. Taking her with us was not really an option and so Cindy said that maybe we would find a new home for her at some point.

During our time at that nice spot at Van Lake, every day a young cow shepherd came along. He was a very nice guy and loved playing around with Yolo. Sometimes Yolo was even running around with him while he was taking care of the cows.

After some days we thought that maybe he would be a good friend for Yolo and asked him if he would like to keep her once we left. He got excited about that and after we made clear that we wanted a really nice home and friend for Yolo and that he would have to take care of her for a long time, we left Yolo with him and the gang of cows he was taking care of.

It was a bit sad to leave Yolo because we had such a great time with her. But at the same time it felt absolutely right to leave her with the nice shepherd to have a proper home and family.