Outbound exchanges

Turkey-2012
How do you explain the experience of a lifetime that can be repeated 13 times in 20 years? One can’t explain it with words or pictures and one can’t convince others who haven’t be on the identical trip. The purpose of Friendship Force is a World of Friends is a World of Peace that is established by staying a week in a new friend’s home, their city and by delighting in learning a little of a new language, culture and much about their family and life history. It does not always work as expected or it works better than expected or tops every previous Friendship Force Exchange. Such was the Huntsville Alabama Friendship Force exchange to Karsiyaka Bay Turkey that most of us from Alabama, Kentucky or Michigan said was the best home stay in our experience. This was an exchange in April 24 to May 7, 2012.

The Karsiyaka Bay club has a wonderful reputation of hospitality and very friendly interesting hosts who really know how to entertain and befriend. We do not give names or addresses or family pictures of our friends but we choose pictures that represent our experience in the exchange and the tour afterwards. It is just a tease of what one might experience.

The tour of Turkey included a tour of the travertine water falls and Roman resort at Pamukkale, the geology and underground cities of Cappadocia, and finally the old city of Istanbul. A week tour was of a few of the great sites in Turkey and most took at least 500 pictures and an hour of video. A year later what we remember and like is our ability to communicate with our Turkish hosts by email or Skype and not the pictures we took.

History:
1993
Outbound to DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND and tour of SCOTLAND
Outbound to NEW ZEALAND and AUSTRALIA
1994
Outbound to JAPAN
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
1995
Outbound to BELGIUM and HAMBURG, GERMANY
MEMPHIS, TN
Charleston, WV
1996
Outbound to KOROLEV & MOSCOW, RUSSIA:
Outbound to SUSSEX & DEVON, ENGLAND
1997
Outbound to BRAZIL, S.A.
1998
Outbound to VAREL & COTTBUS GERMANY
1999
Outbound to NOORD, NETHERLANDS plus France tour
Outbound to HAMILTON, & CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND and MOUNT BAKER, AUSTRALIA
2000
Outbound to TOLUCA/TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, MEXICO
Outbound to LEICESTER, ENGLAND plus IRELAND tour
2001
Sacramento, California and Side Trip to Los Angeles
Outbound to Portneuf, Canada and Side Trip to Canadian Rockies
Outbound to West Alejeula, Costa Rica and Side Trip
2002
Outbound Exchanges KREMS, AUSTRIA and tour of Budapest, Bratslavia, Prague and Salzburg
2003
Outbound Belem and Araraquara, Brazil – David Lambert
Olympia and Whidby Island, Washington and Mid-Willamette Valley, Oregon
2005
Outbound Aksombo, Cape Coast, and Kumasi Ghana
Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan
2006
Outbound Mount Gambier, Australia and Western
2007
Outbound Niagra Falls and Winnepeg, Canada
Western Kentucky
2008
Outbound Saitama and Gifu, Japan
2009
Outbound Cairo, Egypt
2010
Flathead Valley, MT and Lower Columbia,WA
Outbound to Seoul, Korea
2012
Outbound to Karsiyaka Bay, Turkey
2013
Outbound Charlotte, North Carolina
2014
Outbounds to Hawera, New Zealand, Tour of South Island, Kapiti Coast, New Zealand and Kempsey, Australia
2015
Outbound to Saskatoon & Medicine Hat, Canada
Long Island, NY
2016
Birmingham, AL
Lincoln, NE
2017
Outbound to Nurenburg & Varel, Germany
2018
OUTBOUND EXCHANGE TO SEATTLE
2019
OUTBOUND EXCHANGE TO SACRAMENTO
2020
NO EXCHANGE DONE - CoVid-19 pandemic
2021
OUTBOUND EXCHANGE TO Northeast Ohio Friendship Force

2022
NO EXCHANGE DONE