Isfahan to Tehran

We drove to a small village, Abuaneh. It was a search for the “green doors” (the toilets) – way too much driving, too much coffee…
We visited the mausoleum…Mecca facing “paradise”.
We saw the local tailor who tried to sell us pants.

A local woman invited us into her house. The view from the roof was spectacular. Then, she invited us for tea and brought us biscuits, bread, candy, and fruit. She explained (through Hosseni) that she has no family, her only son is a teacher in Tehran.

More mosques, more private homes in Kashan (believed to be the city from which the 3 Wise Men set out for Bethlehem)

Lunch at Fin Gardens, built by Shah Abbas I, in Kashan. We tried their local ice cream sandwich (rose water ice cream) and rose water noodles.

Knives are not normally available at restaurants, napkins only occasionally (they use Kleenex)
Kurdish expression: “It’s better to fight than to do nothing”
“Iranians love Americans, Americans love Iranians, but the governments are Great Satans”
We drove through Qom, home of Ayatollah Khomeni ( Qom = “fulla mullahs”)
Our final stop was at the Khomeni Mausoleum. We were one of the first Americans to see it. John and Dorothy added a US dollar bill to the offering.